Dineo Seshee Bopape shows her video installation ‘The problem of beauty, 2009’ in the mediaroom of City Hall Toronto.
About: Video Installation
“…an ultra cosmic journey through the sublime…a kaleidoscopic, cosmic space, face, body, space and sound are torn apart, fractured, in an ecstatic and orgasmic ‘party’ of light, colour and sound, both the images and sound are loud and disparate, displaced, empty and full, made alien yet familiar in this vast video space by their isolations from their referents (and/or wholes…vignettes of fractured spaces) then further juxtaposed to create a feeling of both awe and anxiety and dysphoria…what begins as a grounded space begins to shatter beautifully and kaleidoscopically fractured in sublime space, shards of image and sound collide and dance…the motifs and the visual language are influenced by Rastafarian pop imagery, other religious pop + low-fi video aesthetics and the graphic work of South African graphic designer Sthembiso Shibe and on space and on the Serengeti wild reserve.”
The problem of beauty, 2009.
The video includes images of the artist and her cosmic twin sister Sivu.
Dineo Seshee Bopape (b. 1981, South Africa) completed her MFA at Columbia University, New York in 2010. Bopape is a finalist in the 2014-2015 Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Her work has been shown in national and international exhibitions. Her recent shows include Ruffnek Constructivists at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; The Lightning Speed of the Present, Boston University College of Fine Arts; the 12th Biennale of Lyon, Meanwhile… Suddenly, and Then, and My Joburg, La Maison Rouge, Paris.
the eclips will not be visible to the naked eye.
About: Exhibition: The Possibility of Everything
Dominique Fontaine – Curatorial Statement & Biography
Between the earth and the sky, the possibility of everything will create a framework for artistic experimentation presented in a dynamic, engaging, fun and surprising way. Altering our basic assumptions about what we see, feel, and understand about our worlds and ourselves, the exhibition will invite audiences to re-think the social and sensorial possibilities of public spaces. The emphasis will be on artistic productions that make us reconsider the meanings of play and participation. The works will be unconventional and symbolic of their particular aesthetic. Projects will reflect poetically on the social and political issues affecting our present realities and possible futures.
but that is not the important part of the story, 2013.
Dominique Fontaine is an independent curator, consultant on contemporary art, media arts and arts management living in Montreal. She is Founding Director of aposteriori, a non-profit curatorial platform and has curated and organized several contemporary art events in Canada and abroad. Her curatorial projects include “Images, Imageries, Imaginaires” – International Photography Exhibition of the World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures (2010) Dakar, Senegal; and “Forms and topographies: African Cityscape in flux” (2009) Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece. In 2012, concerned about contemporary issues in visual arts, media arts and new artistic practices, she launched Modulation, a multi-year project devoted to rethinking collaborative modes by creating exchanges between the contemporary art scenes of countries in Africa and Canada. Fontaine graduated in visual arts and arts administration from the University of Ottawa (Canada), and completed De Appel Curatorial Programme (Amsterdam, the Netherlands).
Courtesy: Stevenson Gallery, SA.