Discover the contemporary work of Bratykathy
I grew up in an environment where I was always singing with my animals and dolls in my arms, imagining myself far away. Far from violence... Creativity was my escape.
I have always been creative. Either, I created a pretty dress out of toilet paper, or out of K7 thread.
Creativity in the broad sense has always been part of me, it allowed me to have refuge, security, confidence, freedom, and well-being. The more time passed, the more I knew that I was not made to work locked in an office... With the support of my mother and my art teachers, I was able to take flight and discover myself artistically. At 17 I moved to alone in a place where I had no friends or family. I did not know anyone. I started studies in the fashion profession, then continuing in the arts in France. It took me 6 years to obtain my degree, because it was not easy with the language barrier, being in a large developed country, in the face of racism. As well as verbal and mental violence, loneliness, depression, pain. He arrived a moment when I couldn’no longer manage to do anything. create, I thought I was destroyed. Sad that something that gave me so much confidence and warmth was now full of pain and negativity. Until the day when I decide to no longer give up, to fight and take back something that was taken from me. stolen. This thing that is part of me, that gives me hope, that makes me dream. Today I am thinking about me, to this little girl full of dreams and creativity, who wants to have a positive impact on the world and the beings who live in it. Bratykathty's goal.
I work with my emotions and my feelings, I translate them into my illustrations. It is not because the inspiration is pain that it is a representation of unease or melancholy. By materializing it, I heal myself, I repair myself, it’s my therapy!
My illustrations take the form of my inspirations, both feminine energies and atypical beauties. While seeking to show the resilience of women, the acceptance of the body, their emotions and their particularities.
