Otobong Nkanga Quotes

I don’t like the word “sustainable”, I never did. The whole system has to change.

I wasn’t expecting this (winning the Nasher Prize for Sculpture), but I am extremely honored.

I'm very interested in the microscopic and the general, and how those two things intersect and play roles and expand our understanding of what we are.

I think that everybody has, I hope, or tries to in this lifetime, tries to have a passion of something that you wake up in the morning and and you feel motivated by. You feel that it's necessary for it to be in this world and when we don't find that quest, and when we do not know, it leads to many Questions of existence.

A young generation will be able to consider the planet we live in and find ways of repair, connection and love.”

I am interested in this idea of what your perception is and what the reality of material is and what it can become. You realize how materials can relate to what our memory has registered. What happens if we play with that memory — try to break that perception and rediscover the material? If you touch it or smell it, it breaks our preconceived ideas of what it is.

Humans are only a small, minute part of the ecosystem, but we as beings have forgotten this.

Your ancestors are part of your life in the present, and they are also the ones who show you the way into the future.