For the group exhibition Inspiratio–Imitari, artists were invited to respond to the work of Alphonse Mucha, whose visual language helped define an idealised image of femininity within the Art Nouveau movement.

My response focuses on the constructed nature of beauty and its persistence across time. Mucha’s muses—ornamental, composed, and often reduced to a singular visual identity—became a point of departure rather than reference.

The work does not seek to critique directly, but to examine the quiet endurance of these standards and the ways in which they continue to shape perception today.

Through this lens, the piece questions authorship over beauty—who defines it, who embodies it, and who is excluded from it.

At its core, the work becomes a statement of separation:

Your standard is not my standard.