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Azu Nwagbogu Quotes

born 1975 Nigeria

Azu Nwagbogu (born 1975) is a Nigerian art curator and National Geographic Explorer at Large. He is the Founder and Director of the African Artists' Foundation, the LagosPhoto Festival and creator of Art Base Africa, an emerging virtual space dedicated to exploring and understanding contemporary African art and diaspora.

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You’ve got to learn what’s in the box before you can think outside of the box.

It is not about ideas of black excellence or black misery, but what I call a middle sensibility that makes the mundane special.

As ever, I have a keen ear to the ground on all the Africa Pavilions.

Venice must not cower and kowtow to remain relevant.

This protest is not about ‘the poor masses.

The exhibition is entitled Everything Precious is Fragile, which draws inspiration from Yoruba Gèlèdè philosophy.

Many were from people with some kind of connection to the continent through the objects they own or have inherited.

As a curator, I try to live and participate with minimal dissonance between my existence as a thinker and as a compassionate being trying to make sense of my survival in this world.

For a long time, no one from outside got to see the work of local photographers and they, in turn, had no interaction with international photographers.

Everyone who isn’t in government has had enough. The genie has been let out of the bottle and it won’t go back in without the wishes of the people being fulfilled.

Her work is diverse but personal. I wouldn’t want to call her a humanist photographer, but she uses researched human condition as the basis for her work and creates interventions in spaces that have been traumatised.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Azu Nwagbogu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.