Keyezua

“What makes me uncomfortable in our society is what helps me create an artwork that deserves to exist as I follow the revolution that happens in my mind when I am not satisfiedwith a situation that affects human rights.”

“What makes me uncomfortable in our society is what helps me create an artwork that deserves to exist as I follow the revolution that happens in my mind when I am not satisfiedwith a situation that affects human rights. Due to technology as a catalyst for change, everybody can educate and market themselves as an artist but is not everybody that is willing to use art to fight a cause or to provoke and insist in intellectual change. For us, women, we can’t just make art to make art look pretty and successfully hang on a wall at home or in amuseum. It needs to demand respect, debates, confusion and experiment with tradition”

Keyezua
Biography
Biography

Lola Keyezua, (Angola, 1986) is a graduate from the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, in Nethernlands. She explores the African renaissance as a contemporary storyteller, which carefully exhibit her emotions and influences inspired by life in Angola/Africa.

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, whenartists 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.

Since 2015, Keyezua has been exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions worldwide in regions including: the United States; in Europe, in countries such as France; Ireland, Portugal, The Netherlands; in Africa, in Sao Tome island and Principe, in Bamako, Macau and Luanda; and in Asia and the Middle East.

Keyezua
Selected works