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Serge Attukwei Clottey Quotes

born 1985

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“I challenge convention and advocate the importance of creativity."

“Be fearless and believe in what you do - whatever that will be.”

"The materials used in my practice allow me to articulate political and social critiques from a Ghanaian perspective."

"Art has always been deeply integrated into my life and has served as a lens in which I see the world and my place within it."

" We’re both after the heart and soul of the people that create our community and that is how an artist becomes an accidental anthropologist and vice versa."

"My practice focuses on the intersection of art and anthropology,"

"We want to make people aware and conscious of who they vote for. People treat this country like a medium that they have no control over but politics is very powerful.”

“In Ghana we use animals, plants, nature to heal ourselves, to communicate our spiritual problems and that is very powerful. I grew up in a religious family but I’m now getting more spiritual by accepting our traditions.”

“To work in the arts you have to find a way to make money, but I was also interested in how modelling can manipulate the way you move. When I realised that I could also use that body in my work, I already had an audience who were interested in me as a model.”

Serge Attukwei Clottey, The Guardian, 2016.

“Our costumes are made from simple materials and we use people’s energy; so people would attack us because they thought there was something spiritual to what we were doing. People without skill are scared to express themselves; they feel like they don’t have a platform. But they want to experiment with their ideas.”

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Serge Attukwei Clottey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.