The Dark Secret of Slightly's Tree

Child of artists, Louise was born in 2000. She grew up between Saint Paul de Vence and Paris, close together and hidden from view, in a family tenderness that she says is the anchor that later allowed her to spread her wings.

As early as kindergarten, her distinction was attributed to her difference - her dyspraxia, an object of rejection that was sometimes total and often furious. For a long time, she was comforted by the idea of incomprehension of prejudices. 

Through her passion for the horse, she did not seek to overcome but to share her deep emotions and her need for human expression. She remembers that she wanted to ride horses even before she wanted to walk.

Louise does not seek strength. She is not interested in resistance. She creates to keep what her weakness has given her, sharing the beauty, as the shortest way to present her vision of humanity. "If you don't feel, you miss out on everything" Louise quotes. Creating is her thing. Beyond her artistic heritage, Louise draws from her emotions, her depths, her senses, her intuitions, and does not lack imagination. She mixes materials, assembles them, recycles them, and imagines them in the universe. She tells herself, that she knows, that as she experiments, she transcends in her own resilience. 

She learns that she has beautiful eyes. She finally dares and understands that she can be everything, she can be whole, and above all be an eclectic artist to whom no borders are imposed. 

Passionate about fashion, she wanted to pose, parade, create, collaborate with photographers and artists, in order to inspire beauty in the antechamber of her passions, to mix charm and humor.

Louise, you are studying Art, can you tell me what it means to you? 

Louise Boujenah: Art saved my life. It is there that I found, with the horse, of course, my place to express myself freely, to be able to externalize my emotions. Both teach me rigor, concentration, the right measures... Art for me is the impression of giving life to creatures. Then I like to fill people with colors. I like colors - blue is my favorite color! Water, nature, in an abstract form, are frontal and generous. It is a possibility for me of giving something, where each one can feel in their own way, positive or negative. What counts is to feel and share. When I walk around museums, I look for that myself. I don't want to be brutal, but I admit to being an animal. I love Garouste, how he expresses his bipolarity and tames it in his art.

For this session, you wanted your mother, Isabelle Luzet, to share some of her work, can you tell me why?

It all started with Mom. I saw her cutting hair, transforming faces, working on volumes. She would draw in front of me and then she started to sculpt. Her sculpture "the heart of hope", representing a small angel with its wings turned towards the sky, was to be with me on this shooting.

Is there anything else you would like to add for your generation?

Yes, be positive, feel good about yourself, and your body. Live in the present but learn, discover, don't be afraid.

CREDITS

Photography: Greg Alexander 
Art Direction: Sébastien Vienne
Coordination: Angelsartparis
Hair: Isabelle Luzet
Make-Up: Makka Elbaz
Production: Méphistophélès
Text: Angelique Di Cesare