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Moshekwa Langa Quotes

born 1975 South Africa

Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) is a South African visual artist based in Amsterdam.

South Africa
Artists

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I work best if I am thinking about me first, and go outwards.

The way I do things now is I don't have a visual reference.

Are we not all in our own ways writing our own biographies from the ways that we choose to interact and not interact with people?

I am more excited by the process of discovery and unpredictable situations and outcomes

It’s interesting to work with things that are kinder to me visually

I find art empty and bombastic.

For how long will we be required to unburden our dark past to the world?

My work is no longer a catharsis. I have only given a spark of myself.

Working in the abstract means opening yourself up to myriad interpretations about your work

I make things that reflect my life and sometimes I make things that reflect other people’s lives and other stories and anecdotes

The way that I use names, it is an anchor, it is notes for things I would rather not forget

I prefer to lead, but I let myself be distracted and led at times

I am not going to stop my process because I shifted my focus

If I had to explain what I do to someone, to myself if I was not an artist, I would say that I make kind of dreamscapes.

There are easier, clearer and more precise forms of communication and being an artist is not one of them in my view. It is a contested free space

For me it is interesting to work in that liminal space between losing consciousness of the real and falling into a fantastical wakefulness, of making sense of what is around me, and what I imagine [and] hope to be around me and what I wish to be away from me

Attribution

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