Pain transformed into strength, by Keyezua's lens

February 17, 2020 at 13:35 p.m.


Pain transformed into strength, by Keyezua's lens


keyezua She is an artist Angolan-Dutch who discovered in art the perfect way to prosecute his deepest emotions.

The series of photographs titled fortia (which means strength) presents a powerful and vibrant visual narrative.

When she was a child she lost her father, who suffered from diabetes and lacked both legs.

The society indicated him as "an incomplete man", but despite his young age he knew that was not true.

He studied and graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (The Netherlands), then began to capture images professionally

When planning this project, he approached a group of six men with the same condition as his father.

So he asked them to make masks from their own conception, that is, each one has a story behind it.

The result was amazing. All that pain turned him into extremely beautiful shots.

Thus, the work is a therapy and can even be healing.

In the same way it refers to the feminine strength, taking as protagonists the women. This, because in some places in Africa it is still a figure that is relegated, but for her it is quite the opposite.

He also uses his voice and art as revolutionary acts. 

 

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