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Marie Hélène Pereira Quotes

b. 1986

Marie Helene Pereira (born 1986) is a Senegalese curator and cultural practitioner.

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That’s also something important—to know how to react to tension and to know when to decide, “OK, I’m not reacting to this anymore.

We are trying to ensure that art practice is not merely seen as decorative or aesthetic, and that people are aware that a lot of knowledge is embedded in it and should use it as a tool for change.

The discourse is one thing but acting for effective repair is another.

I’m very fond of conversations that take you out of the over-intellectualization of things to evoke the affective

The physical encounter plays a role in how a work is brought into a place

For us what was important was the human, who is in front of us and what kinds of interactions we want with that person

Physical interaction is so important to what we do as art professionals that it’s hard to imagine how we will work without that possibility

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marie Hélène Pereira (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.