Kenyan - Artist | June 22, 1972 -
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.
Wangechi Mutu
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I've always been curious about the things that I'm afraid to look at, that make me embarrassed or bother me.
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I juxtapose and slice up reality and fiction quite easily. I'm aware that it is up for grabs and a powerful tool to explain how we take control.
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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.
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Being taught to despise your body is being taught to perhaps admire someone else's body more than yours - being taught that your body is good for certain things and not for others.
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Often, there's an emphasis in my work, and it's sort of the celebrating of the body.
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I love magazines because they're so dispensable, and they're so quickly consumed. In that way, they're quite honest. They're unashamed about how small an amount of time they're trying to keep our attention.
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I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest to me. I'm interested in the way these fields have helped us understand how we are human and why we are human.
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'Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies' is a piece that I did around the time that I was very frustrated and angry with the fact that the U.S., where I live, had decided to pull itself into another war. I was really angry.
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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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There are ways to speak that can transform things, which has less to do with authority but is more about resourcefulness and ingenuity.
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Beautiful things can happen when you act intuitively and instinctively in a moment of anxiety and do something radical.
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