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Olu Amoda Quotes

born 1959 Nigeria

Olu Amara (born 1959) is a Nigerian sculptor, muralist, furniture designer, and multimedia artist best known for using relics of discarded consumer such as rusty nails, metal plates, bolts, pipes, spoons and rods to create sculptural figures, flora and animals to highlight Nigerians socio-political and cultural issues from sex, politics, race and conflict to economic distribution.

Nigeria
Sculptors

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Memory in the Material honors the notion that energy never dies. I encourage people to see things as they are but also for what they were.

"I think of [my work] as offspring from a parent material. The pieces come from somewhere. We can't forget that.

From where do you draw your inspiration as a visual artist? Life. I live and work in the urban settings. Everything you see in the urban sprawl speaks to me.

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