"Nkanga’s work harnesses sculpture’s capacity to embody experience; uses the Earth’s raw materials to incite feelings such as belonging, nostalgia, retrospection—through objects, through performance, through textiles, drawing, painting, poetry. She affects her audience, while suddenly addressing issues of consumption, globalism, connectivity, and more."
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Jeremy Strick as quoted in Otobong Nkanga wins the 2025 Nasher Prize, Artsy, 5 October 2023.
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