Dineo Seshee Bopape, Sedibeng, it comes with the rain, 2016. mixed media. dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. SeMA Biennale Mediacity 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA. Seoul Museum of Art. 2016. Photo: Gim Ik Hyun, Hong Cheolki
Dineo Seshee Bopape’s installations address topics of gender, sexuality, politics, and race. With this work composed of various materials, Bopape activates her interest in objects and the significance attributed to them. There are also stickers of different African flowers pasted on the surrounding walls, which seem to make a new 3D map of Africa. Bopape’s work is inspired by the lyrics of a song that was often sung during the South African struggle against apartheid: Azania—”From Cape to Cairo, Morocco to Madagascar […] Azania, our voice/land/being, we will get it via bazookas.” Bopape’s installation cross-examines the utopian idea of a united African continent.
