Sure there’s a tonne of spookier images we could show you this Halloween, but you’ve seen it all before. Instead we wanted to revisit the work of Alin Mor, a Haifa-based artist who we chatted to a couple of years back. Her arresting imagery, with its simple line work and impactful symbolism, looks to navigate the genuinely frightening way in which the media presents idealized femininity as “mostly related to seduction and sexuality”—as it has done throughout religious texts (hi, Eve) and other tales since time began, such as Greek Mythology’s Pandora, said to be “the first woman” and “created as a punishment to humanity”. The fact such suspicion of, and even hatred towards, women can often still be as keenly felt today as ever is perhaps far more scary than Scream masks et al. As Mor puts it, “even in our so-called progressive Western society, women are still seen through that same lens in magazines, porn, commercials, fashion etc. It is the same archetype of the seductive woman, now serving as a tool at the hands of corporations to promote products and aid their financial needs.”
