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Wangechi Mutu

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There's a recycling mentality about my work. - Wangechi Mutu
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So many a time, I would find myself stuck in my studio while, in another country, my exhibitions were opening and I was being celebrated. - Wangechi Mutu
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For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then I'm also able to make these very strong statements. I don't know what they mean to other people, but in my mind, they have a very strong particular resonance; there's sort of a power. - Wangechi Mutu
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When certain things reach a tipping point, and you know people's lives are in danger, you have to decide that it's time to speak up, and you have to say something loud and clear. - Wangechi Mutu
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Beautiful things can happen when you act intuitively and instinctively in a moment of anxiety and do something radical. - Wangechi Mutu
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Equal rights for women and queer folks! - Wangechi Mutu
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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. - Wangechi Mutu
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Gold and precious gems are, in many places, the one form of wealth a woman can use to protect and enhance herself within the elaborate structure of patriarchy. - Wangechi Mutu
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I feel that art is beyond language. - Wangechi Mutu
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My work is often a therapy for myself - a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way of allowing other black women to work through this kind of stigmatization as they look through the images and feel how distorted or contorted they might be in the public eye. - Wangechi Mutu
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Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice. - Wangechi Mutu
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We have to redefine what we mean when we say, 'Who are your people?' 'Where are you from?' - Wangechi Mutu
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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. - Wangechi Mutu
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When I'm making a collage, there are a lot of things about it that are violent. - Wangechi Mutu
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I really believe in dreaming and making things from nothing. - Wangechi Mutu
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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. - Wangechi Mutu
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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 believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame. - Wangechi Mutu
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