Long after we are death, there will still remain things to do
Dineo Seshee Bopape’s expansive practice deals with socio-political notions of memory, fictional constructions of time, narration and representation as interrelated forms.
She is aware that spiritually and scientifically, what we are seeing as real and solid is not what it is. So, the sense of the mythologies that we create in order to survive as a social species such as linear time, to-dolists, tasks, functions and deadlines are absurd really in their limitedness, yet moving in their beauty as we try to find our place in the world.
Bopape’s de-bordering environments of displacement and re-placement to strengthen our sense of the world on different celestial, earthly, bodily and metaphysical levels. She uses elemental materials such as soil, bricks, timber, with found objects and archival images, video and sound from her everyday, to develop these dense installations intersecting the personal with the collective.
Her contribution to the Survival Kit 12 is the ongoing drawing series Long after we are death, there will still remain things to do that started in 2014. The fact that the series is an ongoing work correlates with its title and acquires a more vulnerable layer with the whole experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. The feeling of infinitely continuing tasks that outlast our lifetime, it self makes us question the absurd and obscure ways we create our place in the world as human beings.