Wangechi Mutu Quotes

I think there is something about countries and nations that is hard to define. And, in fact, that's probably why we create such massive boundaries - because it's so slippery where they begin and where they end.
I use femaleness as another lens, so I don't even think all my creatures are women; I just think that I bring out the femaleness in them.
I watched a lot of avant-garde films, like Maya Deren's work, and I love film's technical ability to do things that are impossible in real life. It's related to the way collage allows you to manipulate reality and the hierarchies that are inherent in our awful but amazing world.
I would like to make work for my country, art which is innately Kenyan by being made in Kenya.
I'm big into multifunctional clothing.
I'm not a documentarian. I'm not a photojournalist.
I'm very much a person that believes that there's something that was introduced into Kenya and Africa as we know it that has made us despise our bodies.
I've always been curious about the things that I'm afraid to look at, that make me embarrassed or bother me.
I've always loved the idea that you think you know what you're looking at from a distance, yet when you come up close, it gets intricate and nutty and obscene and provocative.
If I don't have an ability to go the places that I have been invited to show at and to speak at and to feature my talent, well then, I am going to stay here in New York City and work my butt off.
If something hurtful enters your body, you create something beautiful to protect yourself from it. That's my philosophy.
In 'National Geographic,' you always saw pictures of tribal Africa. And here I am, sitting in Nairobi in our suburban house, watching TV and thinking, 'Why is it always going to be these tribal people 'that are the ambassadors of our image?
Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice.
My work is often a therapy for myself - a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way of allowing other black women to work through this kind of stigmatization as they look through the images and feel how distorted or contorted they might be in the public eye.
My works tends to be erotic.
Often, there's an emphasis in my work, and it's sort of the celebrating of the body.
One of the things I'm interested in is not just women but the female qualities that are present in everyone.
Our interest is in showing that homophobia is not part of the agenda for a new Africa.
So many a time, I would find myself stuck in my studio while, in another country, my exhibitions were opening and I was being celebrated.
Some people get turned on by my work, and it sells, but what drives me is the process of making it.
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22 June, 1972
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