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mart house gallery
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dineo seshee bopape
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In my work I aim to engage the poetics of language, the psychosexual, the power politics embedded in the fabric of the every-day. Personal/privatized dramas are teased out sometimes close to oblivion-to arrive at a 'place' of not one specific narrative. But a discordant orchestral mess/harmony of many small stories told in light, sound and color. Physical objects are taken from the everyday and are made to perform.

Within the videos, I attempt to re-look, re-examine, to deconstruct the image of 'me' (and 'you'), the self/other are displaced.

I ask questions about a 'me' which is assumed, performed, assigned, suggested, fixed, unfixed-unwoven. A 'self' which is (un) defined by lineages (physical and social) 'othered'. (And re-othered) and 'reeled', displaced within the video loop. Within the performance within the sound or lack thereof. The self within in a 'play' as part of a series of other images that preceded it. De-coded to deconstruct-not only the image but the space in which the codes relating to the image are read, assigned and renegotiated…. the space of the socially-constructed viewer, the other, the reader, the writer and the self.

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