Kathleen Massara profiles South African artist Dineo Seshee Bopape on the eve of her participation in the New Museum’s “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus.” The piece opens like this:
In her solo exhibition at the Thami Mnyele Foundation in Amsterdam last year, South African artist Dineo Seshee Bopape shoved a gray bicycle into a cracked doorway; hanging from the back of the bicycle frame was a bouquet of roses and baby’s breath, as well as a broken red umbrella. A sign reading “it’s a celebration bitches” was duct-taped to the front of the bicycle, a reference to a skit on the Dave Chappelle Show. Bopape knows how to tell a joke. But are we ready to get it?
To read the rest of the piece, click here. Bopape keeps a blog with photographs of her own work, which you can visit by clicking here. The photograph illustrating this post is from a post on that blog titled “grassgreen/sky blue.”
