Wyssolela Moreira is an Angolan multidisciplinary artist, art director, and energy worker based in Toronto, Canada.
Self taught with a background in classical and contemporary ballet, her experimental art practice uses digital collage, writing, photography, video-art, and performance to explore the complexities of self, of being, and existing. To challenge the definitions and expectations of presenting as African over time while navigating concepts such as self-identity, ancestry, spirituality, mental health, discrimination, gender inequality, and African human rights.
"A arte que crio é de inspiração Divina. O meu trabalho é uma linguagem codificada de tudo aquilo que se ressoa comigo. Eu me considero muita coisa em união com uma só.. Tento apenas encontrar o melhor medium para expressar qual seja a frequência criativa que tenho. Os temas variam, e as complexidades experimentais é que me levam a explorar o que é ser, e o que foi e será...
Eu me vejo no mundo, me vejo na experiência alheia.. foi assim que me vi em <os transparentes>, foi assim que criei <os últimos patos>
Mas na realidade nada criei, tudo já é tudo ja foi encontrado. De nenhum partido fazemos parte, à festa chegamos sempre tarde. Queremos só um pouco de diamante... as luzes internas levam tempo até deixarem de ser opacas.. E é disso que o meu trabalho nasce, de tudo, de ser."
"The art I create is from Divine inspiration. My work is a codified language of everything that resonates with me. I consider myself to be a lot of things in unison with one.. I just try to find the best medium to express whatever creative frequency I feel. The themes vary, and the experimental complexities are what take me to explore what it is to be, what it was and what it will...
I see myself in the world, I see myself in people's experience... that's how I saw myself in <the invisibles>, that's how I created <late to the party>
But in reality, I created nothing, everything already is, everything was already found. We're not part of a party, and to parties we always arrive late. We just want a little bit of diamond... the internal lights take time until they stop being dull.. And this is where my work births from, from everything, from being."