Dineo Seshee Bopape: Special effects

special effects, part ii | 2012 | mixed-media installation | dimensions variable

special effects, part iii | 2012 | mixed-media installation | dimensions variable

biography

Dineo Seshee Bopape

Born 1981 in Polokwane, South Africa
Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa

Dineo Seshee Bopape was born in 1981 on a Sunday. If she were Ghanaian, her name would be Akosua/Akos for short. In the year of her birth, the Brixton riots took place; two people were injured when a bomb exploded in a Durban shopping centre. Bobby Sands dies, MTV is launched, the Boeing 767 makes its first air flight, Umkhonto we Sizwe performs numerous underground assault operations against the apartheid state. There was an earthquake in China that killed maybe 50 people. Hosni Mubarak was elected president of Egypt, there was a coup d'etat in Ghana. Princess Diana of Britain married Charles.

Dineo Seshee Bopape: Special effects

Dineo Seshee Bopape

Sara Rahbar: War series

Hani Zurob: Standby

Ayman Baalbaki: Switzerland it ain’t (Ceci n’est pas la Suisse)

Ayman Baalbaki: Switzerland it ain’t (Ceci n’est pas la Suisse)

Mitra Tabrizian: The Perfect Crime

Dineo Seshee Bopape: ešobana!! lešobana! lešobana!! (le bulegile); lešobana! lešobana! lešobana!! (go phunyegile)