Kenyan - Artist | June 22, 1972 -
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.
Wangechi Mutu
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The medium of film is really wonderful because it can behave in the same way as collage and painting; it can be layered and non-literal.
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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.
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Football has that wonderful gift of being accessible. You don't need much gear, a coach, or a lifeguard. You just need your imagination, strong legs, and a couple of friends, and it's a game.
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Equal rights for women and queer folks!
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I do all I can to make my world a better place to live in for me and for my kids as well.
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I'm big into multifunctional clothing.
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My works tends to be erotic.
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I really believe in dreaming and making things from nothing.
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I would like to make work for my country, art which is innately Kenyan by being made in Kenya.
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Our interest is in showing that homophobia is not part of the agenda for a new Africa.
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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.
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