Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2017 Winner: Dineo Bopape

WORDS Michaela Stehr VIDEO National Arts Festival on YouTube.com

The winners of the 36^th edition of the Standard Bank Young Artist Awards have been announced.

Polokwane-born Dineo Bopape – who took home the award for Performance Art – works in a variety of mediums, ranging from installation and video to painting. She uses her work and subject matter to evoke a strong sense of memory.

Dineo creates a tangible language though her pieces in a way that blurs the boundaries of communication. “What inspires me in my work is a need to try and understand the world, to try and understand myself, to try and understand the world that we live in,” she explains.

This short video below tells her story and her relationship with multimedia art: