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Ayobola Kekere-Ekun Quotes

b. 1993 Nigeria

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.

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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’s something very humbling or rewarding in people whom I’ve never met, finding a connection with what I have to say.

All artists should stay true to themselves.

There are few things as glaring as dishonest work. If you don’t value your point of view, no one else will.

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

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.

I think I was drowning because I’ve spent my entire life internalizing everything that has ever happened to me.

I had just found a way to paint without painting.

I find a good way to describe it is that I’m building a jigsaw puzzle, but I can see where it ends, I just call it lines on steroids.

Do they have to be artists? I’d have a very random selection of people so I could watch the sparks fly. I'm here for it. A bit of chaos never hurt anyone!

I do not. She legally belonged to the school, because she was an exam piece. So technically, she wasn't mine. So I never got to actually keep her.

But I don’t treat it like a craft. I treat it no differently than if I was sculpting or making an installation. It’s just another way to tell the story.

Like, it’s not an easy career. I could have been an accountant. It would have sucked and I’d be bored and miserable! It would probably be easier. But here I am.

There is. There's always a chance I might never see them again. And I do have quite a few pieces that I haven’t seen since they left. And I do think about them, like are they happy?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ayobola Kekere-Ekun (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.