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born 1964 Nigeria

Victor Ekpuk (born 1964) is a Nigerian-born artist from Uyo in Akwa Ibom State. He is currently based in Washington, D.C.

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I observe identity as an ephemeral condition that is always in flux.

Essentially we are all a sum of different parts that are shaped by circumstances.

There is always recognition of some personal memory in the collective. Because it is, after all, a human story.

I want my works to be starting points for dialogue, new discoveries into the differences and commonalities among cultures.

I believe that our self-consciousness is borne from memory.

We’ve experienced a lot of appropriation of the ideas of African creativity, but haven’t had the creators at the center.

As an African in the diaspora, I share in this history of artists not being appreciated – not because their work is not good, but because of the color of their skin.

There’s also the sense of reducing ideas to their essence, because that’s what the art form is about – to reduce ideas or concepts to graphic symbols.

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