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The Museum of Modern Art Presents Projects: Dineo Seshee Bopape at The Museum of Modern Art

Dates: (7/1/2023 - 10/8/2023 )

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The Museum of Modern Art will present the new exhibition Projects: Dineo Seshee Bopape at The Museum of Modern Art on display July 1st through October 8th.

 

The Museum of Modern Art announces Projects: Dineo Seshee Bopape, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in New York, on view in the Museum’s street-level gallery from July 1 through October 9, 2023. The central work in this exhibition, the multichannel sound and video installation Lerato laka le a phela le a phela le a phela/My love is alive, is alive, is alive (2022), also incorporates soil, rock, and water. Known for bringing together video, sound, and organic materials in her often site-specific installations, Bopape considers how social, political, and spiritual histories of the African diaspora inhabit the physical land and waters. Originally commissioned by TBA21–Academy and co-produced with Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, this site-responsive presentation will be expanded at MoMA to include additional artworks in clay and soil. Projects: Dineo Seshee Bopape is organized by Martha Joseph, The Phyllis Ann and Walter Borten Assistant Curator of Media and Performance.

 

Bopape’s multimedia installation takes the spirits of the ocean as its starting point. Combining video recordings of the sea in Jamaica and the Pacific Ocean with audio recordings of coastal winds around Louisiana, Jamaica, South Africa, and West Africa, this work depicts the ocean from above and below as the artist submerges her hands and places organic matter such as fruit, flowers, and various libations in the water. Audio elements are incorporated through Bopape’s rhythmic drumming of the water and through her voice—she can be heard singing in her mother tongue, sePedi. The work was inspired by the whiplacerated back of an African American man known only as Peter (formerly misnamed Gordon), who escaped American slavery in the 18th century and whose story of resilience of spirit continues to be told through a widely circulated photograph. Bopape explains, “this work pays homage to the ocean as a host of memories: of Peter and 12 million others who crossed the Atlantic, those who survived and those who fled in the waters escaping enslavement, seeking sanctuary amid the water.”

 

For this first presentation of the work in the US, Bopape is collaborating with the descendants of enslaved people who lived and worked on the Menokin Plantation in Virginia. During workshops with the artist, this collective of descendants are creating small sculptures from clay sourced from the property. This collaboration began during a recent show in Richmond Virginia, and Bopape will include these new objects in the exhibition at MoMA.



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