I paint what photographs can no longer hold

Venera Mor (b. 1990 in Essentuki, Russia) is a New York–based artist whose work explores the instability of memory through painting and photography.

She begins with photographs she captures herself — attempts to hold a moment still. These images are transferred onto canvas, then interrupted: erased in parts, rewritten in others, until they lose their fixed form.

What remains is not the original image, but a trace — something between record and reconstruction.

Her paintings exist in the space between what is remembered and what is no longer fully accessible, where memory is continuously reshaped in the act of seeing.

They hold both presence and disappearance at once.