DINEO SESHEE BOPAPE - “BORN IN FIRST LIGHT OF THE MORNING [MOSWARA’MARAPO]”

 
6 OCTOBER 2022 – 29 JANUARY 2023
 
PIRELLI HANGARBICOCCA | MILAN, ITALY
 
Dineo Seshee Bopape
lerato laka le a phela le a phela le a phela / My love is alive, is alive, is alive, 2022 (still)
Three-channel video installation, sound, color 17’
Courtesy the artist
Commissioned by TBA21–Academy and co- produced with Pirelli HangarBicocca
 

The work of Dineo Seshee Bopape (b. Polokwane, South Africa, 1981; lives and works in Johannesburg) is characterized by the use of organic and highly symbolic materials that allude to the concepts of memory, identity, and belonging. Soil is one of the most recognizable materials in her practice, and it is often mixed with other substances such as coal, ash, and clay to create environmental installations.

Taking as a starting point her own experience in her homeland, South Africa, Seshee Bopape weaves narratives that investigate archetypes and myths in which the female figure plays a central role. Combining digital and analogical aesthetics, her work incorporates different media, like sculpture, drawing, video and sound, through a poetic approach that has its origins in matter.

Her first solo show in an Italian institution brings together a wide range of works as well as new productions allowing to explore a practice which reflects on the relationships between self, memory, socio-politics, history, sovereignty, form, nature and spirit.