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Dineo Seshee Raisibe Bopape is a South African artist known for immersive, emotionally resonant installations exploring land, memory, and spiritual experience. For Folkestone Triennial 2025: How Lies the Land?, she presents Ka Pheko ye (curse dissolved)—a sculptural offering made from local materials and shaped by African cosmologies. Topped with a “spirit house” rooted in ancestral tradition, the work reflects Bopape’s deep engagement with healing, inheritance, and the politics of place. Etched with the words “Curse Dissolved,” it becomes a blessing, a release, and an invitation to imagine transformation through care, presence, and connection to the land.
ABOUT CREATIVE FOLKESTONE
Creative Folkestone is a visionary arts charity and placemaking organisation dedicated to making Folkestone a great place to live, work, play, study and visit. Creative Folkestone believes in the power of art and creativity to encourage positive social change and should be open and accessible to all. Since 2002, Creative Folkestone have been transforming Folkestone through several key projects including Folkestone Artworks, Folkestone Book Festival, Creative Quarter, Folkestone Triennial and Quarterhouse. Through all these projects we enable people to get creative. In 2021, Creative Folkestone also became custodians of Prospect Cottage, the former home of Derek Jarman, following a successful campaign to save the property for the nation in partnership with Art Fund and Tate.
Film by Oliver Parkin
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instagram.com/oliver_filmmaker
Dineo Seshee Raisibe Bopape is a South African artist known for immersive, emotionally resonant installations exploring land, memory, and spiritual experience. For Folkestone Triennial 2025: How Lies the Land?, she presents Ka Pheko ye (curse dissolved)—a sculptural offering made from local materials and shaped by African cosmologies. Topped with a “spirit house” rooted in ancestral tradition, the work reflects Bopape’s deep engagement with healing, inheritance, and the politics of place. Etched with the words “Curse Dissolved,” it becomes a blessing, a release, and an invitation to imagine transformation through care, presence, and connection to the land.
ABOUT CREATIVE FOLKESTONE
Creative Folkestone is a visionary arts charity and placemaking organisation dedicated to making Folkestone a great place to live, work, play, study and visit. Creative Folkestone believes in the power of art and creativity to encourage positive social change and should be open and accessible to all. Since 2002, Creative Folkestone have been transforming Folkestone through several key projects including Folkestone Artworks, Folkestone Book Festival, Creative Quarter, Folkestone Triennial and Quarterhouse. Through all these projects we enable people to get creative. In 2021, Creative Folkestone also became custodians of Prospect Cottage, the former home of Derek Jarman, following a successful campaign to save the property for the nation in partnership with Art Fund and Tate.
Film by Oliver Parkin
oliverparkin.com
instagram.com/oliver_filmmaker
