During the confinement, the artist BKenzart found the brushes, far from his daily border life. She took up art therapy to heal her ailments and try to heal the wounds of others through her paintings. Today, she exhibits her works in galleries in Europe.
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This is not a new story of retraining due to the taste-cooled Covid-19 epidemic. It is a new breath breathed into a life. Find yourself, do what you love. This is why Kenza, alias BKenzart, continues to paint since the return of the daily shuttles between Thionville and Luxembourg for his work.
The courage to be yourself
After hiding behind a facade for a long time to be accepted by others, she made the decision to be fully herself despite adversity. “Art is a continuity of my personality. My style of dress too. When I was a teenager, I used to like people to say about the clothes and hats I personalized: that’s Kenza. “Octagonal glasses, large hoop earrings, purple leather skirt and fur jacket, the thirty-year-old assumes a colorful and fashionable style. “It’s Kenza!” »
Kenza is also 80/80 cm canvases that depict the emotions and trials experienced in a life. “If we’re still here, it’s because we’re resilient,” says the accountant in Luxembourg with firmness and wisdom. She likes to paint on large surfaces. It allows him to take his place. “Abstract art allows me to have no limits,” confides the hypersensitive young woman, who paints in her free time.
Hypersensitivity: a gift
“For a long time, I was told that my sensitivity was a fault, today I have made it a strength. I had to accept that I wasn’t like everyone else and it didn’t matter if I didn’t fit into a mold. I found my own way. Hence my painting on the Okapi, a half-giraffe half-zebra animal. He didn’t belong in either group, so he created his own. »
Dark, luminous and colorful notes make up his art. Life is a mixture that she transcribes in painting. Yarns, crafts, beads and sequins are superimposed on acrylic to represent roots, perseverance or even the little voice that guides our hearts.
« Do what you love is, for example, a mantra that follows the artist, so much so that an entire painting is dedicated to him. “It’s called tearing. She talks about getting out of a toxic relationship to reclaim her life. I had trouble painting this canvas, like the first three in the series: resilience”, confides the border worker spontaneously.
Diving into traumas in painting and music to get better
Usually, she paints the music loudly in the eardrums, often Afrobeat. “For some paintings, I work on deep traumas. This is where I still have some way to heal. I had to ask myself without music, accept my emotions and let myself be guided by the brushes to succeed in finishing them. I sometimes use sophrology to calm me down when I paint. Once the canvas is completed, an immense weight leaves my shoulders and I feel better. That’s the magic of art therapy! »
This artistic practice helped her find herself and understand herself. “Today, when a difficult event happens to me, I let myself be less discouraged. I take things with more hindsight. In three years, BKenzart, his artist name, was able to exhibit in Belgium, in Thionville and Algrange. “I really like having people’s eyes on my works, seeing what they provoke or not. They usually feel the message that I want to convey: love each other”. Bkenzart intends to continue to spread love in Thionville and on our borders.
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