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Cassi Namoda Quotes

b. 1988

Cassi Namoda (born in 1988) is a painter from Mozambique. She currently works and lives in Italy.

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Colonialism created the circus, the clown, the “freak,” and it’s crucial to afford these figures an existence outside Europe

Magical realism is definitely the foundation of Mozambican expression

I feel pregnant with work: all these ideas want to have a birth

Emotion is abundant in the way that humans can connect to story

I am encouraging audiences to have some audacity around living

There’s something vulnerable and tender about small works

I think you can’t have joy without suffering

Growing up, I’ve always had to adapt, and it’s given me an attribute where I’m able to connect dots

My truth at that moment [was that] we have to accept that a little will take us a long way

Everyone [in Mozambique] fought for revolution, whether you were a woman or man

In one way, I understand that everyone’s a part of the revolution if you want a free country, but I also believe in free will

I feel like I have a duty to keep storytelling and exploring narratives around Mozambique

I’m navigating my spiritual self through painting

that was always innate in me – that I wanted to tell a story, but I wasn’t sure in what form.

I feel that part of the identity about being from Mozambique is to be a creative, to be a writer, to make music, to do woodcarving

To paint life is to keep an open mind

I am not so fascinated with the idea of telling a racial story, but I am more interested in telling stories of a world that people might not seem so knowledgeable about

It is less about the depictions and more about how they make you feel or how it makes you understand, relate to a time removed from you. Then, the gaze is something that reminds you that you are not a member of their society.

I think many African painters, certainly [those of the] past, look to have a sensory experience, something that we can relate to and that we feel in our daily life

Attribution

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