DINEO SESHEE BOPAPE

Dineo Seshee Bopape

NON IN MIND (fictions unending) dreamweaver and other stories
September 8th - 13th October 2007


Mart House presents, in Bopape's first solo-show, videos, objects, drawings and photographs, as an installation of mystery and intrigue. Bopape is an artist who is interested in the collection of material and their potential to invoke strong emotional reactions. The resulting considered, abject messiness provides the viewer entry into the netherworld of the unsaid and unspoken. Secrets, white lies and elements of psychosexual ambivalence are components on the artist's palette, stirred and applied with vigor to create a site for contemplation "My work is a search through a minefield of metaphors in spaces...spaces of memory and of the present, spaces of the real and the imagined, the hidden and revealed. It is an attempt to conceal and mask, whilst simultaneously attempting to peel away the husk and layers that crust over secretive stories embedded in objects and in people."

Dineo Bopape (1981), Durban, South Africa) studied at the Durban Institute of Technology, And a two years working period at the Ateliers, Amsterdam (2005-2007) Her work has been shown at 'in the making materials and process' (Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape town, 2005) at the International Film Festival Rotterdam(2006) New Painting recent South African Art (KZNSA Gallery, Durban, 2006) Shared Histories/Decolonizing the Image (W139, Amsterdam, 2006) De Grote Oversteek (Stedelijk Museum, Zwolle,2006) and the TransCape event (Het Fort,Cape Town, 2007) www.marthouse.nl culled from press release.