Iké Udé Quotes
born 1964 Nigeria
Iké Udé (born 1964) is a Nigerian-American photographer, performance artist, author, and publisher based in New York City, United States.
- Nigeria
- Artists
- Photographers
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We all mirror each other and are essentially of the one and same human race.
Culture insists that we remain clothed from birth to death.
If one can acquire the patience of old processes in making pictures, then one can make extraordinary images.
The self can only exist in relation to other selves.
I want to do it very well and I want to study people who did it very well.
What I’m most interested in is why we use costumes, how we use them, when we use them, and where we use them.
Nollywood is perhaps the best thing to come out of Africa since the Pyramids, the Pharaohs, and the Queen’s Obelisks.
The African image and beauty has been trashed by Western colonial interventions.
It was me being called in to be a contrarian, to give a different perspective every now and then.
Military thugs had taken over and plundered the wealth of the country, systematically destroyed Nigeria, and continued to damage it while I was away.
Beauty has always been the most perfect, the most profound, the most lasting agent of change, immortality, timelessness, and hence the most radical of all artistic agents.