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Dineo Seshee Bopape

Dineo Seshee Bopape


Born in 1981 in Polokwane, South Africa
Lives in Johannesburg

Is I am sky inspired by the poem of sun ra “endless realm” where he speaks about the idea of “nothing”… the video begins as a narrative of a journey through space – somewhere in  “nature”/grassland-taking a walk, making love to the sky – disappearing into the thing being looked at – the thing one is looking not – compressing the here and there disappearing into nothing – the sky, cosmic space. A narrative of disappearance, a kind of death space, erasure…a madness Installation: projected large onto a screen – in a space that kind of mimics an outdoor screening situation – with large speakers, faux grass, dark (midnight blue) walls: sprayed with some glitter – to give a bit of sparkle…. 

Dineo Seshee Bopape was born in 1981, on a Sunday. If she were ghanain, her name would be  akosua/akos for short. During the same year of her birth, the Brixton riots took place; two people were injured when a bomb exploded in a Durban shopping center; bobby sands dies; 100 were killed during riots in Cassablanca; mtv is launched; the boeing 767 makes its first air flight; umkonto we sizwe performs numerous underground assaults against the apartheid state. princess Di’ of Britain marries charles; bob Marley dies; apartheid SA invades Angola;  AIDS is identified/ created/named; salman rushdie releases his book “midnight’s children”; Winnie mandela’s banishment orders are renewed for another 5 years; in the region of her birth- her paternal grandmother dies affected by dementia; people cried and people laughed… The world’s population was at around 4.529 billion… today she(bopape) is 1 amongst 7 billion – occupying multiple intersecting adjectives.

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Is I am sky, 2013
video, color, sound
17′ 48”

Courtesy
Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg / Beirut

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