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

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.

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.