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Tony Gum Quotes

born 1995 South Africa

Tony Gum (born 1995) is a South African visual artist and photographer from Cape Town. She became known for her self-portraiture, particularly the Black Coca-Cola series, and later works exploring identity, race, gender, Xhosa culture, history and representation.

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I paint myself more so because I know myself best, and I take photos of myself because I know myself best.

My design philosophy is ‘Africa is worth it, black people are worth it, people of colour are worth it, and as a whole the human race is worth it.

I am a black girl who is young and all I could see in media was everything besides me. To change how I was feeling, I had to put myself in that position.

It’s a new generation of artistry. And I try to learn from traditional and non-traditional artists. I believe our role as artists is to understand the present, envision the future and remember the past.]

Attribution

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