Ayobola Kekere-Ekun Quotes

Nigerian contemporary visual artist

Ayobola Kekere-Ekun (born 1993) is a Nigerian contemporary visual artist. Kekere-Ekun finished a degree in Graphic Design at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka in 2009 and also received her Master's Degree in the same field in 2016. She is the Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Creative Arts at the University of Lagos. As of 2022, Kekere-Ekun was finishing her Ph.D., which started in 2018, in Art and Design at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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The work can be difficult to define – is it a craft or an art? It’s something a suburban mum in Arkansas would use to make cards.

So I went right back out, and I bought a bunch of paper. Then I cut them up and I just kept rolling them and gluing them to a board just to see what happened. It became a really intense, passionate affair that just morphed into something loving and stable.

I had just found a way to paint without painting.

You can tell a lot from a person’s eyes. The eyes offer a mutual vulnerability.

I feel like men take up enough space in the world, she explained. I don’t feel like they need to take up enough space in my head as well.

There are few things as glaring as dishonest work. If you don’t value your point of view, no one else will. There’s something very humbling or rewarding in people whom I’ve never met, finding a connection with what I have to say.