Keyezua, born in Angola in 1986, is a graduate from the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague. She explores the African renaissance as a contemporary storyteller. If you unfold her work you experience an abstract combination of sexual expressionism and cultural heritage.Keyezua’s art grows into individual stories, portrayed in movies, paintings, poems and sculptures. She often uses photography techniques to express herself through images. She believes that an African artist can only break Africa’s epidemic of stigma and prejudice image in the media, when artists break the silence in African art and expand their indigenous stories with a new vision of Africa, with this thoughts she depicts her stories to the world. Keyezua counts with international exhibitions in the UK, Nigeria, South Africa, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Ethiopia, the USA and more. “With this body of work, I first portray the face of one of the women with the most beautiful face and I slowly vandalize the face by changing its feature into AFROEUCENTRIC destroying what is considered perfect to exhibit beautiful black features. Women portrayed in this body of work are aware of their beauty and they want to expose it by destroying the mask that the world continues to shape, a mask that gives women the illusion that when you don’t have an Eurocentric feature, you are not beautiful. Women, If we don ́t manifest resistance our pure existence as black, beautiful women will disappear.” - Keyezua.
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