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Zohra Opoku Quotes

born 1976

Zohra Opoku (born 1976) is a Ghanaian-German multidisciplinary artist.

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You really wonder where all this information ends up when we don’t write it down

As an artist, you always want to excavate the truth of something.

Time is the best friend for an artist.

Once you are in Ghana, Ghana becomes you and you become Ghana

The traditions of African culture can be read through

Outside of being an artist there's nothing, I mean, you don't stop, right?

I wouldn't become a politician, but I definitely would love to be the whisperer to one.

I have never been fulfilled by the role fashion plays in society – it’s seen as a business more than a deep reflection of cultural development – yet for me it has such transformative power

I feel like the body is just existing in a particular time of the life span, but our soul, our being, is continuing

I believe that your soul or your spirit speaks with you and tells you what you want

Parts of my work explore the ability to express one’s identity, and identity can be actualized through textile

I wouldn't call myself an artist if I just create something beautiful, it's more in the process of reflecting and what is happening here around me I can't ignore.

I am political with my work because I also want to express my thought process

It’s like once you are in Ghana, Ghana becomes you and you become Ghana

The handcraft was present in my upbringing. And painting and drawing came naturally to me.

In being identified as German, Afro-German, African, Ghanaian, Obroni and Asante all at once, I´ve learnt to live like a Chameleon

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