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Penny Siopis

Penny Siopis (Born 1953) is active/lives in Africa, South Africa.  Penny Siopis is known for Allegorical painting, video, installations.

This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob
Modus Operandi

Penny Siopis is foremost a painter, although she frequently works with video and installations. Siopis’ work is marked by three interests, the physicality of paint, the accumulation of found objects (including video footage), material memory, and the politics of the body. She has also continually engaged with the shifting social and political situations in South Africa.

There is a sense of intimacy and personal closeness of experiences in the narratives of Siopis’ works, however they do bridge over to a wider global social context and how the viewer relates to the fragility of the subject. Siopis has had a longstanding interest in what she coins 'the poetics of vulnerability'. The juxtaposition of associations, history, femininity, as well as the traces and the repositioning of the past into the now through collective memory are what appear as you submerge into the worlds Penny Siopis crea   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6528 characters.]  Artist bio

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