It is the last week to see our fellow’s Dineo Sheshee Bopape solo exhibition ‘Master Harmoniser (Ice aya soya, la, ndokh) at Blank Projects in Cape Town, South Africa. Comprised of two major installations conceived between 2016 and 2021, the exhibition also marks the artist’s first showing in Cape Town in nearly a decade.

Bopape’s artistic process engages with the matter of self-sovereignty, “exploring the metaphysics of ‘self-presence’ (the sense of being present to one’s self) and matter (in the literal, alchemical and symbolic sense) often surveying the wounds of the personal and collective body; this at times through the historical contexts backdrop of colonialisms, imperialism, and slavery”2. Informed by Afro-diasporic spiritual aesthetics, she interweaves these themes through her large-scale, immersive installations that often encompass storytelling, sculpture, drawing, video, and sound.

You can see the exhibition until 20 January.

Photo, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Lerole: footnotes (The struggle of memory against forgetting) (2017 - ongoing) | Unfired clay bricks, various clays, pine wood plaques, found portable vinyl turntables, vinyl records, gold leaf, charcoal, soil, sand, calcium carbonate, mineral oxides | Installation dimensions variable @ Blank Projects

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