Dineo Seshee Bopape

Dineo Seshee Raisibe Bopape invites us to smell, taste, hear, see, feel, walk, sit and dream. In dreaming, the artist explores the connections between the suppressed and fragmented parts of material form, life and the self. 

Bopape immerses herself in the world of dreams, forests, land, water and stories of African rainmakers. It has been a practice of various indigenous cultures globally to administer and receive healing through dreams, in this process engaging various plant life forms. Soil is one of the recurring matters in the exhibition, as a repository of the universe’s memories and potential and as a record of social, historical and political stirrings; a symbol of our collective connection to the nurturing essence of the dreaming Earth. Site-specific and sourced locally for each iteration of the installation, the organic material she uses become a symbol of our collective connection to the nurturing essence of the dreaming Earth.