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Moshekwa Langa
17 quotes
“It’s interesting to work with things that are kinder to me visually”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dust, Beauty And Geography Combine In Moshekwa Langa’s Tropic Of Capricorn (13 December 2019)
“If I had to explain what I do to someone, to myself if I was not an artist, I would say that I make kind of dreamscapes.”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I work best if I am thinking about me first, and go outwards.”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Biography and timeliness in the work of Moshekwa Langa (15 November 2013)
“Working in the abstract means opening yourself up to myriad interpretations about your work”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are easier, clearer and more precise forms of communication and being an artist is not one of them in my view. It is a contested free space”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As an artist I want my work to be poetic, to reflect on things I find interesting, things that have informed my progressions and regressions, a kind of a capsule of the times I live in”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I prefer to lead, but I let myself be distracted and led at times”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am more excited by the process of discovery and unpredictable situations and outcomes”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Moshekwa Langa And The Mass Of A Poem 2 May 2016
“For me it is interesting to work in that liminal space between losing consciousness of the real and falling into a fantastical wakefulness, of making sense of what is around me, and what I imagine [and] hope to be around me and what I wish to be away from me”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: MOSHEKWA LANGA ‘RELATIVES 23 July 2018
“The way that I use names, it is an anchor, it is notes for things I would rather not forget”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not going to stop my process because I shifted my focus”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I make things that reflect my life and sometimes I make things that reflect other people’s lives and other stories and anecdotes”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Are we not all in our own ways writing our own biographies from the ways that we choose to interact and not interact with people?”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The way I do things now is I don't have a visual reference.”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Moshekwa Langa's 'Fitness' (25 October 2025)
“My work is no longer a catharsis. I have only given a spark of myself.”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For how long will we be required to unburden our dark past to the world?”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I find art empty and bombastic.”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Langa is from another time and place (16 November 2020)