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Tshepiso Moropa
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Tshepiso Moropa has received significant international recognition, including the Out of Africa Award, Contemporary African Photography Prize, and the V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography. Her work has been presented at Paris Photo, 1-54 London, and exhibitions including A Kind of Paradise at Museum Rietberg. Moropa has also participated in the RE-Memory Virtual Residency and PESP4 Art Creating Programme, and her work is held in multiple public and private collections internationally
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"The collages I use are inspired by SeTswana (a language spoken in Southern Africa) folktales or folklores I used to hear growing up. These were stories that my aunt or my mother used to narrate to me when I was younger. I would often imagine how the characters or a particular environment would look as they recounted the story. I guess the collages that I create are a depiction of what I would think a particular folktale would look like."Tshepiso Moropa in SEE-ZEEN Magazine, READ HERE
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"Figures are cut, layered and re-staged against stark white backgrounds, as if suspended between eras. The effect is neither nostalgic nor didactic"
-Sean O' Toole for Visi Magazine, READ HERE
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"They say that when the world sharpens its edge, a woman is the one who holds the tip of the knife, carrying its danger so others may pass safely.As she rode home from house to house, moving like women always have, she carried both child and memory with her, leaving her footsteps behind so no one would ever forget the way.”
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