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Billie Zangewa Quotes

born 1973 Malawi

Billie Zangewa is a Malawian artist who hand-sews silk fabrics to create collage tapestries and who now lives in Johannesburg. Since 2004, her art has been featured in international exhibitions including the Paris Art Fair at the Grand Palais in Paris.

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I definitely think that mothers can be artists and women do not need to choose one or the other. This is an antiquated idea.

I want to make the clothing come alive.

My politics are more in the personal acts performed in my work; the personal as political.

I pay particular attention to what my protagonist is wearing in my silk narratives.

I am using my own image and body to tell my story.

So my work is autobiographical but the themes are evolving as my life story unfolds.

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