Soon, reflected in the mirrored surface is an androgynous face—the artist’s—that we see in profile and in reflection as she somewhat sensually and somewhat laboriously laps, as if to attend to and consume the brown goo that makes way for her image. A Love Supreme links the video’s insistence on bodily process and materiality to a queer indeterminacy: it connects the malleability of sight to a repeated, corporeal image. Bopape presents her double and opposite, an image that is consumed and preserved, negated and affirmed. The video speaks to the ways that
Dineo Seshee Bopape, a love supreme , 2005–6 (video still). Courtesy of Blank Projects, South Africa
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