I do think that fist-waving conversations around liberation ideologies are sort of dated - I'm not creating Barbara Kruger moments of self-actualization - what I'm trying to do is create more moments of chaos where we don't really know where we are: to destabilize; where all the rules are suspended temporarily.
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The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
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My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others.
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You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting.
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At the core, every artist, no matter what his subject matter happens to be, has to be someone doing the looking. I began to really interrogate the act of looking.
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In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in terms of storytelling and literature.
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