`BATLHAPING BA RE! MMAKGABO MAPULA HELEN SEBIDI`

"BATLHAPING BA RE! MMAKGABO MAPULA HELEN SEBIDI" 2018 FIRST EDITION, SOFTCOVER ART CATALOGUE OF AN IMPORTANT SOUTH AFRICAN ARTIST, 64 PAGES, BRAND NEW

Batlhaping Ba Re! is a solo exhibition by Mmakgabo Mapula Helen Sebidi (born 1943, South Africa) featuring paintings, etching and a sculpture from a career spanning five decades. The exhibition reflects on Sebidis continuous dedication to mythologies, ancestry and traditional value systems, and highlights the innovations that have characterised the artists practice in recent years. Sebidis proclamation that, our education tells us that the first true gods are spirit animals invites us to think through the spiritual meaning of animals, and the metaphor of animals in everyday life. Batlhaping Ba Re! the fish people say is a line from sereto sa Batlhaping and a reference to Sebidis family spirit animal, the fish. This exhibition asks viewers to think about the idea of animism that Sebidis work often conjures in an attempt to explore a number of themes, including different forms of personhood, the politicisation of land and its relation to conceptions of creation.