In conversation with .. 4!

It’s been almost 2 months since self-isolation has
been enforced worldwide, how are you feeling?
Quite a bit better now but still feeling the
uncertainty.
What have you been doing to pass your time in
quarantine?
I think for most of the beginning of this lockdown/
isolation I was oscillating between anxious and
depressive thoughts and found it very hard to
be productive and that my hands were quite tied
up. It was very hard to dive into creative mode
again. I think social media pressure really didn’t
help, and as much as I think it’s nice to see people
baking bread, finally organising their underwear
drawers and promoting quarantine as a blessing for
productivity, for most of us just to be able to cope
with the scenario is enough, and this was quite hard
for me to accept, but was also really lucky to have a
partner during the whole thing.
How has the situation affected your work?
It was quite drastic, I lost my side job and was not
able to go to the studio for over a month,
so I had to find new alternatives to produce work.
Do you have a day-to-day lockdown routine?
Trying to wake up early, have a lot of coffee, write
a list and try to plan my day as normal as possible,
and always trying to keep entertained with tasks,
one after the other, be it bureaucracy stuff, a bit of
work, looking for online opportunities and later on
back to drawing/painting finally. But I also tried to
have a good time, cook good food, enjoy the little
things and definitely avoid the news.
Have any unexpected benefits come out of this
situation for you?
I think in my case it put a lot of things into
perspective, especially about dedicating myself
completely to my artistic practice and not go back
to other jobs just by fear of failing, but money is a
bitch we all need. I was also lucky that my partner
is a great graphic designer so we finally made me a
new beautiful website.
What do you wish for the future?
That the art world can function again, I think selfemployed
artists were definitely very affected, there
is very little economic support for different types of
artists and galleries who are not super successful
and for the people who have associations or spaces
and art events, so I really hope this situation will
be addressed better or at least that most of this
affected places can survive in post-corona so artists
can still show. But apart from that, I think just wish
the same as everyone, for the invisible enemy to be
gone.
Where can we buy your art?
www.kunstabhinterhof.at/artist/barbara-moura/
www.mymuseum.co/
artworks?name=&artist=Barbara+Moura
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