The kind of unstructured installation Bopape employs, in which myriad ordinary objects are massed into a space, is risky. Videos like f for flowers move through a sequence of gorgeous blooms against a stormy sky. Like Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist, Bopape is the rare contemporary artist who is not afraid of making work that is purely beautiful.
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Silver aluminium sparkles from the floor, the walls and the plant pots – and competing for attention with all this are a series of videos on monitors, or in one particularly throwaway gesture, projected on to an ancient computer screen. The walls are clad with checked floor coverings, with pictures of flowers, there are swathes of grass covered fabric, myriad vases of greenery, ribbons and beads draped over stands.
And surface is what Bopape’s installation seems to be all about. The title suggests that surfaces can be misleading, that behind what one thinks one is looking at, lies something else, something which cannot quite be grasped. Her character has something of the pathos of a Charlie Chaplin, struggling to find a place in society, but at the same time, this is a woman who can wear a red party dress in the middle of the day with aplomb – and we suspect that at the end of the day, it is the suburb which will have to come to terms with her.įresh from a two year stint at New York’s Columbia University where she received an MFA in new media studies, Dineo Seshee Bopape also chose the title The eclipse will not be visible to the naked eye for her installation in the gallery adjoining the video projection. Dineo Seshee Bopape’s video The eclipse will not be visible to the naked eye is the artist’s attempt to reconnect with her hometown Polokwane, (capital of Limpopo province and known for its conservative values) after years of study abroad.
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