"Humans are only a small, minute part of the ecosystem, but we as beings have forgotten this."

"Your ancestors are part of your life in the present, and they are also the ones who show you the way into the future."

"I don’t like the word “sustainable”, I never did. The whole system has to change."

"I wasn’t expecting this (winning the Nasher Prize for Sculpture), but I am extremely honored."

"A young generation will be able to consider the planet we live in and find ways of repair, connection and love.”"

"I think that everybody has, I hope, or tries to in this lifetime, tries to have a passion of something that you wake …"

"I am interested in this idea of what your perception is and what the reality of material is and what it can become. Y…"

"The work of Otobong Nkanga makes manifest the myriad connections — historical, sociological, economic, cultural and s…"

"Otobong Nkanga maps urgent global problems but does so in subtle, enigmatic, and probing ways. She works with materia…"

"Nkanga's work makes clear the essential place of sculpture in contemporary life."