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keyezuavision · 6 years

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Beautiful People Know Is a video installation exhibiting a young woman that slowly combs and braids her hair as a ritual to explore her identity and protect her natural hair due a long hair care ritual. She sews book pages to her hair and tries to protect them by hiding it in a braided hairstyle while the book pages of wisdom and awareness are crushed into small hair buns. Her hair care is slow and requires patience from the viewer to connect to the fear of not being accepted in our society, with the feeling of resistance, with the feeling of hair as a political act and with the feeling of hair as the root of identity, BLACK IDENTITY. Beautiful people know … The audio is from a 70´s hair commercial from Afro Sheen. Online posted as “Afro Sheen Ad 4″

#blackhair #contemporaryart #blackwoman #performance #blackbody #femalebody #afrohair #naturalhair #kinkyhair #femaleartist #keyezua

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keyezuavision · 7 years

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KEYEZUA´S LATEST WORK

FORTIA

#FORTIA KEYEZUA FEMALEARTIST DUTCH ANGOLAN CONTEMPORARYARTIST NATURE FASHION FEMALEBODY UN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY AFRICANMASKS

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keyezuavision · 7 years

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NOTHING

In times of crisis people look for a safe place to be jobless without social criticism. Being at the beach in the morning, during normal working days in a society that works with an economic system that requires 35 to 40 working hours a week fuels criticism and stigmatisation. NOTHING focuses on the young and jobless that go to the beach to find a group of people doing the same day routine, “NOTHING”. Keyezua paints their bodies as a social marker, distinguishing the jobless from the worker.

"only the jobless would accept such an exposure to savagery" screamed the rich man while walking on the beach with his guard"

Their painted bodies is exhibited at the beach in resting poses to exhibit solitude, safety and peace. NOTHING is an invitation to initiate a dialogue on why these young men are homeless, doing “NOTHING” and are considered "DANGEROUS" for doing "NOTHING". During the crisis different groups of young, jobless men visit the beach to avoid confrontation with their own reality, specially due the difficulty to financially support themselves or their families. They lay or seat on the beach for hours to forget time and receive a new day to try to do SOMETHING.

#photography #contemporaryart #beach #paint #mixedmedia #africanphotography #africanart #keyezua #eucrisis #angola #netherlandsartist #kunst #artecontemporanea

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keyezuavision · 7 years

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I found a way to let you go!

After losing a loved one, Keyezua went to the cemetery to look for things that could help her grieve. In the cemetery she explored objects, flowers, plants, shadows, sun and wind. These elements became part of the moments of grieving, missing, acceptation, love, lost and life. All the objects tell an abstract story that exhibits religion and the social status from the giver (life) and the deceased (death).

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keyezuavision · 7 years

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NOTHING TO DECLARE ART-WALL INSTALLATION

OIL BARRELS-PAINTINGS

FUCKING GLOBO ART EXHIBITION

LUANDA-ANGOLA

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keyezuavision · 8 years

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Happy news!

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/26/arts/lagos-photo-festival-2016/

#africa photography africanwomen fashion design keyezua netherlands angola royalgeneration lagosphotofestival lagos nigeria art

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keyezuavision · 8 years

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Shoshana

#contemporaryart #collage artcollage femaleartist blackwoman dutchartist africanartist colors artinstallation art contemporaryart nature love

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keyezuavision · 8 years

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Afroeucentric Face On

This year London-based plastic surgeon Dr Julian De Silva developed a scientific facial mapping technology evaluating Amber Heard, Kim Kardashian and other caucasian women as the women with the most beautiful face in the world.

In a world with mixed humans, using methods that were made to whitewash beauty standards and make women of color feel less attractive means that we are mentally colonizing ourselves and letting writers, specialists and scientists continue to carry the worth of our existence by letting them write articles that our children read to reshape their mind into the mind of a contemporary slave of eurocentric beauty standards.

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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Full text The western media has an ambiguous influence in Africa. African television, magazines and the fashion industry seems to follow eurocentrism without questioning what we became after our independency and how our blackness is being televised. The influence is noticeable in the choices our African women have with beauty standards. Although we have managed to create a natural hair revolution, we still have to cope with aggressive propaganda non caucasian women face daily from newspapers to magazines to remind us that when it's not Eurocentric it's not considered beautiful. Today with the use of internet even without following mediocre news pages of your interest on Facebook or Twitter the wind blows into your direction, you are confronted with studies that want to reshape your ideals about your own definition of beauty. The articles and advertisement contain images that are a loud bully to those that don't have the Eurocentric features, these blatant articles contribute to the racial challenges we are facing today. As a woman of color I grew up not knowing how to react to the fact that my features were not considered beautiful. It was also noticeable that in our society, we have black children and asian children that somehow lost the battle and opt to make groups when their features would in a small way meet the eurocentric beauty standards that are taking us back to colonialism and segregation. Praising fair skin, a small nose bridge, straight hair and colored eyes. When I studied, big lips and a wide nose bridge was considered less attractive to white schoolmates. Uneducated black children with similar features would remind you that you were too African to be part of the group because they somehow had one feature that made them part of the beauty circus created centuries ago to divide black people and make them unstable and weak as a group. A strong education could have saved these children but growing up in a western country, white oriented schools have history books that are not an education weapon to shape children to believe that you are beautiful no matter your color or features. The manifestation of beauty lays deeper than your facial features, individually or with the guidance of our parents children can be introduced to books that explain this aggression in magazines and television. It´s abusive and as a child anything that you receive can easily shape your mind and change your thoughts for life. This year London-based plastic surgeon Dr Julian De Silva developed a scientific facial mapping technology evaluating Amber Heard, Kim Kardashian and other caucasian women as the women with the most beautiful face in the world. In a world with mixed humans, using methods that were made to whitewash beauty standards and make women of color feel less attractive means that we are mentally colonizing ourselves and letting writers, specialists and scientists continue to carry the worth of our existence by letting them write articles that our children read to reshape their mind into the mind of a contemporary slave of eurocentric beauty standards. 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 a black, beautiful women will disappear. Thank you for reading, share your experiences with me. E: [email protected]

#femaleartist sleek photography art blackwomen africanartist #unseen #artfestival #moma #artfair #photosession #dutchartist #angolanartist #fashionweek #contemporaryart #black #color inspiration #beautiful

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keyezuavision · 8 years

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Stone Orgasms

“What was your process in creating the work?

With more than 125 million girls and women worldwide damned to live with the physical and emotional scars for the rest of their lives, I wanted to create a response through the eyes of an artist. I created different layers in Stone Orgasms, from ancient portraits of women to images of antique statues, photography of rocks and medical pictures of organs. The statues inside the body show elements of the classical Venus Pudica pose, a bashful Venus barely covering her exposed pudenda, referring to shame, indecency and disgrace. Body parts and organs are misplaced during the process of image manipulation to examine the extreme destruction of the body through genital mutilation. I combine contrasts and cut (digitally) through material to come to the point where different layers create a new personality. I am not a politician to give speeches about female genital mutilation but as an artist I identify myself as one of the voices these women have today to tell their story.” African Digital Art interview

http://africandigitalart.com/2015/02/stone-orgasms-female-body-interview-angolan-artist-keyezua/

#female genital mutilation #fgm female collage art contemporaryart keyezua religion culture women power un unicef painting photography stoneorgasms

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keyezuavision · 8 years

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The Power of My Hands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWI2BQKSbb4

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keyezuavision · 8 years

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An Ancient Angolan Queen

PART 1

I used the first fabric made in Angola to celebrate women, most women in Angola celebrate Africa with fabrics made in Europe designed by Europeans for Africans. With this work I explore our ancient handmade fabric to create a contemporary Queen.

Clothes are designed and made by me. Keyezua

#keyezua angola luanda photography blackmodel africanwomen contemporaryart art model africanartist femaleart afrohair fashion

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keyezuavision · 8 years

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Don´t let them know, I was here

I love you but I hate this hotel

Look at me I I don´t mind staying here with you as long as we

ehummmmmmmmmmmmmm

as long as we are together

I can smell them

Those that made love

here

and here

and here before us

Those that fucked with love

WAIT

This is not a good hotel for a good woman like me

Don´t let my parents

My pastor Know

I accept this love

This hotel love

Our love Good enough in dirty sheets

Dirty walls

Hide me

I hate this hotel. Don´t let them know I was here with love

A Hotel in Luanda-Angola

2016

#travel #photography #hotel #photooftheday #color photography #angolanart #femaleartist #sex #love #decor #art

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keyezuavision · 8 years

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Watch me bend Luanda-Angola

2016

#africa #africanartist #Blackskin #blackandwhitephotography #sea #nature #dutchart #contemporaryart #beach #love #sports #capoeira #angola #photography #AfricanMovie #Nigeria #southafrica #dance #choreography

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keyezuavision · 8 years

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Video -Please use your headphones- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHS4fW2gsUQ -The Wind Against My Back-

Without asking

I started to record their moments

Some were lonely and almost sleeping with depression One was awake trying to meet the arms of her lover

Nobody visits the beach

Not this part

Is dirty

Sometimes the trash that touches the sand scares the wind

Once in a while we look at each other

Most of them don´t want to be here

They don´t want me here

They don´t want the world to be here

Here

I am

Here

I

Disappear with the wind

Empty bodies

No thoughts

Catch my wind

Watch me move with the wind -Keyezua-

#africanmovie #africancouple #shortmovie #beachlife #angola #keyezua #contemporary #nigerianart #lagos #sea #love #africa #femaleartist #movie #madeinafrica #poetry #lemonade #couples

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keyezuavision · 8 years

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I am not a demon. Who am I?

Forty years after Angolan´s independency an ancestral spirit appears in an abandoned colonial mansion, in the metropolitan city center of Luanda (Angola). The defamation of the African religion during colonialism disconnected most Angolans from their ancestors. Because its people now live life through Christianity its appearance is confused as a manifestation of demons.

During the scramble for Africa, white imperialists, priests and churches promoted Christianity and civilization to remodel the African culture. European imperialism was aggressive and obligated most Africans to abolish their cultural behaviour and change their cultural values to adore a religion, culture, habits and language which worked in favour of colonialism, any other form of religion was a false superstition. If you disconnect a man from its roots and you gain power over his mind, this man will become whatever you want him to become. The ancestral spirit spoke in a dialect from the ancient Kingdom of Angola but his people could not understand him as most Angolans living in the metropolitan city speak Portuguese, French or English.

His voice was condemned to be the roar of a demon tormenting the mansion visitors.The tales told by street book sellers is that the opulent mansion is not sold but abandoned because of its demons. The defamation used in the imperialism period destroyed the respect and believe Angolans had about the existence of a higher power guiding them through spiritualism. Imperialism had such a force that some colonised African countries continued to reject their roots, cultural values, power, land and ancient religious practices. The ancestral spirit uses his body language to convince its people that his appearance is not the manifestation of a demon but a wise ancestor trying to speak to this generation to pass the wisdom and vision our ancestors have for Angola in the 21st century.

*This is a tale written by street vendors and Keyezua

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keyezuavision · 8 years

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This Is Not An Object

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keyezuavision · 8 years

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Congo Love

Congo love, is the start of a series of portraits that explore Congolese subculture in Luanda, Angola. The portraits meet the viewers gaze, inviting one to question if in these portraits we can connect hairstyles, make up, beauty ideals, fabric prints as an identity that has been developed by like minded Congolese immigrants in Angola that feel neglected or disconnect from the Angolan society.

What do we have in common? Women reveal themselves in a posture that symbolize physical attractiveness, sentiment and change over time in the congolese culture present in Luanda. Men simply pose self-assured, while children show their innocence in their posture and facial expression. Congo Love, explores the congolese beauty and the complexity that connects them with Angolan ideologies.

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