This weekend, the Bag Factory Artist is hosting the opening of:
"ditshwanthso, dipalo, digopotso"
A debut solo exhibition by Refiloe Namise
The exhibition opening is on 17 August from 12:00 - 15:00 with
"Ways of Remembering: A lecture performance" taking place from 13:00 -15:00
This debut solo comprises of re-placed archive prints, video, performance, remembrances and readings. Namise’s work explores the making and preserving of a place: Alexandra, Johannesburg. Through
various sites in Alex, her work re-members and re-articulates moments and their broader histories. These engagements develop ways of writing, recording, storing and sharing social knowledge,
heritage and culture. Through this exhibition-in-progress, this year’s David Koloane Award recipient explores the idea of the Open Studio. The project’s title ditshwantsho, dipalo, digopotso, meaning ‘images, readings, reminders’ is uncapitalised to connote their existence within broader contexts. Just as
the specific meanings of these words shift in response to their context, so too, the interpretations of Namise’s research are left open-ended, resolving themselves through their performance. In the Open Studio, the concepts of “research” and “artwork” become synonymous. Namise’s primary
media being experimentation and intuition, many things come to realisation only in the realm of their public presentation.