FEMININE DOMAIN

Feminine Domain is an experimental charcoal drawing on raw canvas, highlighting Mobbs’ desire to blur the line between figuration and abstraction. The artist’s process for this work began by inputting excerpts from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex into an AI image generator, and then using her non-dominant hand to create charcoal drawings of the generated images. The work is a preliminary exploration of the ideas that emerge from unrelenting representations of women’s bodies in mass media, but also questions around the derivations of visual culture. In Feminine Domain, Mobbs pushes these almost recognizable figures into the realm of the absurd. Of her approach, Mobbs shares, “We are surrounded by images of women. What do you do with that [as an artist]? How can I reinterpret these forms in my art? Making work is often political, so I want to be sure that I am intentional about what I’m making.”