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Dineo Seshee Bopape Quotes

born 1981 South Africa

Dineo Seshee Bopape (born 1981)is a South African multimedia artist. Using experimental video montages, sound, found objects, photographs and dense sculptural installations, her artwork "engages with powerful socio-political notions of memory, narration and representation.

South Africa
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My focus is to separate what has created the self [and] what is the representation of personality and group identity.

My work developed out of a paranoid expression of drawing boundaries between things private and things public, and an obsessive safekeeping of such.

Sometimes it’s more about resting. Things flow easier when there’s less pressure.

I’ll be working with soil and clay, and hopefully feathers.

I think everybody is a post-colonial artist; we’re all living in post-colonial societies.

Life itself is quite ‘kaleidoscopic’ and surreal. Perhaps as an artist or a ‘self,’ it is an assemblage of possibilities, probabilities and the real as more strange than the fiction. The fictions also are too heavy.

When it comes to our history… and how it has been written. How does one grapple with it? How does one attempt to be sane?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dineo Seshee Bopape (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.