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Beatrice Wanjiku Quotes

born 1978 Kenya

Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) is a Kenyan visual and abstract artist.

Kenya
Artists

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Being married and having kids is the pinnacle of success especially in an African setting.

My work transformed because I spoke of the human condition. I am painting what is very real to me

When you stop caring how people look at you and at your work, you are freer

For me, human bodies are a metaphor for mental frames of reference

I always had the need to understand how things work

There is loneliness when you break the rules of the community

I love the human form. It is central to my work

When you think about ourselves as human beings, we see ourselves as finite. We die but I feel our spirit lives on. You live and grieve beyond the canvas.

The only way to grieve is through my work

I say to people: If you want pretty pictures, I don’t know how to do that anymore. Beauty is so temporary

When I constrain my figures within the canvas I feel like my figures are almost not breathing

I have a sense of peace when I look at my paintings

People ask me why do I decapitate my characters. We are never present in our lives. We are almost mechanical

When you see these individuals with their mouths wide open, please remember that elation and pain sometimes bear the same expression. For a while I have been studying the human predicament, the thin line that exists between empathy and the lack of compassion

I am very content with my life but the world is not content with who I am because I don’t follow a typical idea of who I should be

I was trying to express the emotions, the things that we hide because I realize that faces become masks. People are not allowed to express what they feel

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Beatrice Wanjiku (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.