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Zina Saro-Wiwa Quotes

born 1976 Nigeria

Zina Saro-Wiwa (born 1976, Port Harcourt, Nigeria) is a Brooklyn-based video artist and filmmaker.

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That’s what it means to be an artist, for me, listening to the land and letting the land tell the stories.

I do not consider myself an activist and never will. I hope nothing happens to me that forces me to engage on a single issue.

It's beholden upon storytellers, whether they are in the media or museum world, to tell deeper stories and to provide a point of connection, and that kind of hasn't really been happening. That’s because you need contemporary artists to go there and (for the institution to) be comfortable with a certain level of subjectivity.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Zina Saro-Wiwa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.