It’s heartbreaking to be relegated to fantasy and a myth when something is real for you
Nkhensani Mkhari Quotes
born 1994 South Africa
Nkhensani Mkhari (born 1994) is a South African contemporary curator and multidisciplinary artist.
- South Africa
- Artists
24 quotes
Cultural resurgence must first grapple with heritage and resistance
That is the war we’re fighting. Who gets to create knowledge? What knowledge is accepted?
The more people think something has power, the more power it has
With the chaos that’s happening elsewhere, Africans are stepping into their power
I’m less interested in the victims of colonialism and more focused on addressing the perpetrators
When you don’t speak about something, you create a chance for it to reemerge
I'm seeking a language that doesn't facilitate the process of erasure
There is a source within you, the mystery that is keeping you alive
I address issues of erasure by trying to find a universal language
My work aims to subvert the Western idea of what art is
Even the term “artist” feels slippery to me
I just can’t imagine a world in which we forget about where we’re from, as Bantu
AI is an active project removing entire epistemologies, entire philosophies, entire ontologies
When we think about colonialism, it's so deep. We must be so surgical about it
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nkhensani Mkhari (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.