Nathalie Moga

Nathalie Moga paints instinctively, without sketches or models, with women as her favourite subject: strong, expressive, frightening and mystical. Her work is a research on gender identity and overturns the locked image of the female physique through a representation that goes as far as distorting the forms, their transformation. Sequins, outrageous make-up, rhinestones, come to rest on hard faces and highlight the injunctions to "decorate oneself". Superficial embellishment does not succeed in masking the troubles of the soul, the emotions, the humanity. The ingenuous and light side of the woman, oversold, erected as a norm, becomes impossible. The mutations of the limbs, their animal side sometimes, are psychosomatic symptoms of feelings and state of mind. When appearance is overwhelmed by being, a certain reality bursts forth.

Nathalie Moga is a self-taught painter born in Strasbourg in 1986 to a mother of Afghan origin and a Romanian father, both political refugees in France in the 1980s. After working as a journalist between Paris and New York, the artist exhibited for the first time in her native region in March 2018, at the Maison Romane in Rosheim, a medieval tower built in 1154. She has participated in several group exhibitions, notably for LadyFest Strasbourg, a feminist and LGBTQ+ art event.