'Non in mind' (fictions unending) dreamweaver and other stories

installations, photographs, objects, videos, drawings

8 sept - 13 okt  2007

Dineo Seshee Bopape presents in her first solo-show photographs, drawings, objects and videos, as an installation of mystery and intrigue, a maze of obsessiveness. 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”.

 

artist statement