Dineo Seshee Bopape

In her work, Dineo Seshee Bopape deals with memory and identity through a socio-political perspective. Her installations are made up of videos, sculptures and recovered objects unfolded in space, that invade and translate the empirical and sensitive approach of the artist. Her combinations of images and objects multiply her narratives and perspectives on society, gender, sexuality and colonial history. Her residency at RAW was part of an ongoing project on anti-colonial land and memory in West Africa, Latin America and South Africa.

She graduated from De Ateliers in Amsterdam (2007) and obtained an MFA from Columbia University, New York (2010). In 2008, she was the recipient of the MTN New Contemporaries Award and the Toby Fund Award (2010) from Columbia University. Her work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions in Norway, Amsterdam and Naples, in addition to those in Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg which took place in 2013, 2011 and 2010.