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

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.

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