PARIS.- For her exhibition at Palais de Tokyo, Dineo Seshee Bopape (born in 1981 in South Africa, lives in Johannesburg) has conceived an installation reflecting on feelings, psychic dissolution and weight of context. The video of the song “Feelings” performed by Nina Simone (1976, live in Montreux Jazz Festival) together with a consideration of Bessie Head’s novel, A question of power (1974), are the starting points of her research. Dineo Seshee Bopape explores with her installation the subjective question of affects by bringing together videos and depictions of pieces focused on the body engulfed by emotion in personal and in socio political contexts.

Dineo Seshee Bopape was born in 1981 in Polokwane. She graduated at De Ateliers in Amsterdam (2007) and completed an MFA at Columbia University, New york (2010). She was the 2008 winner of the MTN New Contemporaries Award and the recipient of Columbia University’s Toby Fund Award (2010). Recent solo shows have taken place in Norway, Amsterdam and Naples in addition to her solo shows at Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg which took place in 2013, 2011 and 2010.

Recent group shows include Ruffnek Constructivists , Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2014); Chroma, Stevenson , Cape Town (2014); My Joburg , La maison rouge, Paris; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany (2013); The Beautyful Ones , Nola Judin, Berlin (2012); Fiction as Fiction (Or, A Ninth Johannesburg Biennale) , Stevenson, Cape Town (2012); About Menocchio we know many things , Bétonsalon Centre d’art et de recherche, Paris (2012); If A Tree... , Stevenson, Johannesburg (2012); The Next Generation, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, Mine - A selection of films by SA artists , Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre, Dubai (2012). Bopape was included in the Marrakech Biennale (2016) and has been awarded residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Fountainhead Residency in Miami, the Sober & Lonely Institute in Johannesburg and the Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland.

Curator: Rebecca Lamarche-vadel

SAM Art Projects is a nonprofit organization established in 2009 and supported by the patronage of Sandra Hegedus Mulliez. SAM Art Projects’ aim is as much to help, promote and defend the work of contemporary artists from nonwestern countries as it is to support the projects of French artists in foreign countries (non-european or North American). every year, SAM Art Projects awards a prize to a visual artist living in France and presenting a project destined for a foreign country. The SAM Prize laureate is endowed with 20,000 euros and accompanied by an exhibition at Palais de Tokyo, produced and funded by SAM.