Penny Siopis

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Penny Siopis
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Siopis with her large scale paintings at Maitland Institute, Cape Town
Born (1953-02-05) 5 February 1953 (age 70)
Vryburg
NationalitySouth African
Education Rhodes University

Penny Siopis (born 5 February 1953) is a South African artist from Cape Town. She was born in Vryburg in the North West province from Greek parents who had moved after inheriting a bakery from Siopis maternal grandfather. Siopis studied Fine Arts at Rhodes University in Makhanda, completing her master's degree in 1976, after which she pursued postgraduate studies at Portsmouth Polytechnic in the United Kingdom. She taught Fine Arts at the Technikon Natal in Durban from 1980 to 1983. In 1984 she took up a lectureship at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. During this time she was also visiting research fellow at the University of Leeds (1992–93) and visiting professor in fine arts at Umeå University in Sweden (2000) as part of an interinstitutional exchange. With an honorary doctorate from Rhodes University, Makhanda – Siopis is currently honorary professor at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. [1]

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Early years

She came to prominence in the early 1980s with her 'cake' paintings, which materially encode feminist aesthetics in thick impasto oil paint surfaces. These works were followed by her 'history paintings', interpreted as a form of resistance against apartheid. [2] Her interdisciplinary practice since the national liberation of her country has explored the persistence and fragility of memory, notions of truth and the complex entanglements of personal and collective histories. Experimenting with a wide range of materials and processes, she reflects on the politics of the body, grief and shame, estrangement, migration and more recently the relationship between the human and the not-human within the context of climate change. [3] All her explorations assert materiality and process as inseparable from concept, with her characteristic use of contingent and chance-driven methods becoming emblematic of her interest in 'the poetics of vulnerability'. [4] Griselda Pollock states, "Penny Siopis is one of the few artists in the world today who can weave a material web of marks, gestures, voices, words, found things and painted surfaces to entangle the brute forces of history with the delicate threads of human vulnerability". [5]

Work

Siopis established herself as one of the most talented and challenging artists in South Africa and beyond, [6] by working across painting, installation and film, bringing together diverse references and materials in ways that disturb disciplinary boundaries and binaries.

Obscure White Messenger, 2010, Film Still Obscure White Messenger, 2010, Film Still.png
Obscure White Messenger, 2010, Film Still

Concepts of time run through all her work often manifesting in the actual physical changes of her materials; in her early cake paintings oil paint is made to be unnaturally affected by gravity, age and decay; in her films using archival footage time is marked as much by the effects of age on the celluloid as by the historical period caught in the sweep of the camera; in her accumulations of found objects in her installations, ideas of the heirloom come to the fore with her ongoing conceptual work Will (1997 – ) – in which she bequeaths objects to beneficiaries – being the ultimate time piece only becoming complete on her death; [7] her glue and ink paintings index flux as they record the material transformation that happens when viscous glue matter reacts with pigment, gravity, the artist's bodily gestures, and the drying effects of the air.

Siopis sees her art practice as 'open form', operating as an intimate model in which the physical changes of her materials can be extrapolated into a larger ethics of personal and political transformation. According to Achille Mbembe this quality marks her interest in process as a perpetual state of becoming and entails "the crafting of an unstable relation between form and formlessness, in the understanding that the process of becoming proceeds in ways that are almost always unpredictable and at times accidental" [8]

Charmed Lives installation by Penny Siopis, Wits Art Museum, 2015 Charmed Lives installation by Penny Siopis, Wits Art Museum, 2015.jpg
Charmed Lives installation by Penny Siopis, Wits Art Museum, 2015
Tentacular Time, Stevenson Cape Town, 2019 Tentacular Time installation by Penny Siopis, Stevenson Cape Town, 2019.jpg
Tentacular Time, Stevenson Cape Town, 2019

Paintings

"From the outset, her attitude to painting has been simultaneously modernist and counter-modernist in its complex irreverence to the purity of both creative act and the physical medium." [9]

Cake paintings

Between 1980 and 1984 Siopis developed her 'cake' paintings. Using unconventional implements such as piping nozzles and other cake decorating tools to make her high relief impasto paintings Siopis explored the materiality of oil paint, its potential as object and its association with traditional representations of the female body. The excessive impasto surface changes over time with the outside layer of drying long before the interior, leading the surface to wrinkle and crack. This becomes a metaphor for the all too real effects of time and circumstance on the body. Siopis challenges western conventions of the idealisation of female flesh and beauty. [10] While the female body is the main focus of these works, their association with food and decay comments on larger social narratives of decay which are developed in the paintings that follow. Working with lived experiences alongside feminist theories Siopis expresses how she "was interested in working within the space of complexity and as I worked the materiality became the critical thing" [11]

History paintings

Between 1985 and 1995 Penny Siopis produced a body of work often referred to as her 'history paintings'. [12] Although her interest in the materiality of paint and her experimentation with this medium never ceased, the works from this period differed in many important ways from the 'cake' paintings. The transition was already marked in her Still Life with Watermelon and Other Things (1985); it was even more clearly evident in Melancholia (1986). Presenting a vision of colonialism in decline, the scene in Melancholia is both a vanitas and a history painting. It combines symbols of European high culture and references to Africa, all of them piling up as the debris of history within a claustrophobic space that signifies excess, ruin and psychological malaise. In the past the genre of history painting was seen as the highest achievement of the European art historical tradition. Siopis' ironic interrogation of its form and ideology is evident in such works as Patience on a Monument: 'A History Painting' (1988).

In the history works she introduced the techniques of collage and assemblage as a means to disrupt direct depiction and to bring in references to the representations of colonial history that South Africans were brought up on through history books. These techniques also allowed her to mark the significance of objects as traces of history in their own right. Through the introduction of objects and found images her works challenged the invisible but powerful structures within the ideological systems of apartheid at a time when political tensions in the country were running high.

Pinky Pinky

The 2001–2004 series is the visualization of a South African urban legend Pinky Pinky. A hybrid creature of amalgamated forms. Half-human, half-animal, bi-gendered creature of indeterminate race, Pinky Pinky preys on school children in toilets and threatens girls in pink underwear. Siopis embarked on a personal exploration of Pinky Pinky, and according to verbal accounts by schoolchildren she interviewed on the topic, produced visual embodiments of this processual hybrid figure of no stable identity. Furthering a practice in manipulating paint and form to simulate skin and flesh, Siopis allows the paint to stand in as object of unspeakability. Located within Freudian theory and Lacan's 'real' , Siopis explores humans' ability to work-through personal feelings that exceed language by projecting things you cannot do in real life, onto and within fiction, myth and fantasy. [13]

In her visualisation of Pinky Pinky, Siopis inserted various human prosthetics into the pink, fleshy paint – plastic body parts like eyes and fake eye lashes; teeth and finger nails. In these 'fake horrors', Siopis allows viewers to feel both connected to and distanced from their own fears. [13] In a 2004 interview with Sipho Mdanda, Siopis writes how "Many of these prosthetics are "traditionally" flesh colour, a kind of dirty pink. There is irony here, as flesh colour is not just a category of colour, but nothing less than a western conceit in which whiteness (pink) becomes the universal colour for flesh". [14] The series investigates personal and public narratives around fear and trauma in South Africa. It is an allegory of the nation's deepest fears around issues of poverty, xenophobia, race, and crime at a time of radical social transition and uncertainty post-1994.

Siopis states : "As much as Pinky Pinky is a perpetrator of violence, it also seems a victim of, and scapegoat for, violent, uncivil actions – a constructed 'something' to blame for social problems." [15]

Shame paintings

Siopis produced the Shame paintings between 2002 and 2005 in the wake of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission [16] whilst exploring the public and psychological state of shame. The series of mixed-media paintings, show the artist's manipulation of thick, lacquer gel paint, used in home-craft to create stained glass and coloured mirror effects on surfaces. The ready-made rubber stamped messages within the paintings show the role of a language and the 'unspeakable' nature of the feeling imbued within the painting process.

Works from the series were first shown in 2003 at solo exhibitions in Johannesburg and Athens. In 2005 the Shame paintings became a key feature of Siopis' multi-media installation titled Three Essays on Shame at the museum of Sigmund Freud, once his house, in London[8.33]. Responding to Freud's publication Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, of which the 2005 project marked the centenary, Siopis' Shame installation "linked the issues of sexuality and shame to the traumatic history of her country". [17] By inserting references (voice recordings and objects) into the space, the work evoked a dialogue between Freud's ideas and various individual experiences during the proceedings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, binding the traces of human vulnerability and the dramatic effects of sweeping historical narratives. Consisting of three parts located in Freud's study, dining room and bedroom, the rooms were transformed to exhibit Siopis' installations titled Voice, Gesture and Memory – a frieze of the small paintings installed around Freud's deathbed.

As part of Red: Iconography of Colour in the Work of Penny Siopis in 2009, 90 paintings from the series were exhibited at the KZNSA Gallery in Durban. The Shame paintings were later included in Siopis' 2014 retrospective exhibition Time and Again, installing the paintings as a grid at the South African National Gallery in Cape Town, and Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg. During a recent online exhibition for Art Basel: Pioneers, an installation of the Shame paintings was exhibited at Stevenson,Cape Town in 2021 [18] alongside her most recent film titled Shadow Shame Again, showing a relation to gendered violence in South Africa and around the globe alongside here years of work on the subject of shame. Of this most recent exhibition, Pumla Dineo-Gqola writes how "The footage, music and clapping in the film, like the careful paintings arranged as a frieze, create meaning together, about violence's production of shame, and about its raced, gendered and historically contingent meanings". [16]

Ink and glue paintings

For the last 15 years Penny Siopis has been extending her interests in materiality, chance and contingency; form and formlessness into experiments with the unorthodox medium of wood glue and ink. She shows matter to be alive, creating a fluid process in which the medium is an active agent in the making of the work. [19] [20]

This process involves the mix of ink and glue and sometimes water through pouring the glue onto the canvas which is then moved to direct the flow. [21] Allowing the materials to "mix, swirl and settle into patterns and shapes; the artist responds to the unpredictable image that starts to take shape "encouraging" their development, and sometimes choosing not to intervene at all." [22] Siopis writes of wood glue's 'manifest agency' – a substance of change – white, viscous and liquid, transforming into hard, transparent surface. A medium of the non-human with the ability to alter its state and colour according the forces around it, Siopis explores the 'life' of an inert medium. [23]

"I believe that encounters with lively matter can chasten my fantasies of human mastery, highlight the common materiality of all that is, expose a wider distribution of agency and reshape the self and its interests" [24]

The formless matter that the surface presents offers humans a broader scope for imaginative association. Viewers are invited to exercise their own agency in inventing an image from the material residues on the surface. In this process a personal transformation might be enabled, and the glue and ink process becomes a material way of thinking about larger social transformation [material acts]. Mbembe writes, "Matter enables life. It also complicates life. It opens up to the deep sense of the human as one among many species"'. [25]

After her 2009 solo show 'Paintings' at Stevenson Gallery, Siopis developed the medium further in conjunction with found objects – seen in her 2017 solo show titled Restless Republic. [26] In the same year the artist worked in residence at the Maitland Institute on a project titled Open Form/Open Studio [27] where she continued her exploration with glue and ink on large-scale canvases and invited members of the public into the space to engage with her process. For her solo show Warm Water Imaginaries [28] in 2019, Siopis incorporated the medium with oil paint in an installation of 90 small paintings on paper alongside a room of object-assemblages titled Tentacular Time [29] and the makings of her film She Breathes Water. [30] Siopis used various modes of making to respond to the vast history of climate change and the complex geological and social present. [31] The complete film was more recently exhibited alongside her Atlas series of glue, ink and oil paintings on paper in Siopis' 2021 solo show In the Air [32] at Stevenson, Amsterdam which further explored themes of the climate and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Installation

Penny Siopis's installation works consists of accumulations of objects drawn from the artists personal collection installed in various iterations. "I was always interested in objects as carriers of meanings beyond themselves", Siopis writes, "they are physical traces of time, of people's lives and social histories". [33] The objects migrate from one installation to another, "like an archive, which I use similarly to how I use film...its an ephemeral art really.The objects get taken down and become like paint tubes again". [33]

Charmed Lives, an installation project created for the Liberated Voices exhibition at New York's Museum for African Art in 1999 is notable amongst Siopis's works in this genre, becoming a prototype for further installations. [34] The vast number of objects in this installation are imbued with emotions that the artist and the viewers bestow on them revealing different layers in the palimpsest of memories from personal, social and art historical, asking probing questions about the nature of the archive and the relative truth of a historical record. The constant evolution of the installations and the meanings made from them functions as a generative force in Siopis's work. "One thing nestled next to another or dropped over another, creating countless relationships. They're endless these bits of relationships between things and objects and spaces" writes Siopis. [33]

Will (1997 – ) is an installation that encompasses the objects that the artist has singled out from her vast collection and bequeathed to individuals all around the world. An autobiographical project, this particular collection also functions as an archive and inventory of both personal and collective history. "The corpus will dissolve and the fragments disperse. They will be shot into a new world...The giving itself reflects a dynamic of human relating that in my mind becomes part of the installation". [35]

Jennifer Law writes on this installation and how it seeks to "establish and maintain relationships across generational time and space". [36] As both art and heirloom, Law writes "Sopis's Will is the ultimate time piece...We are able to glance back on a life-in-formation and recognize the subject as discursively produced, 'as project, something to be built''. [37]

Video/Film

Siopis began working with film in 1994 with her film Per Kind Permission: Fieldwork. However, in 1997 Siopis found her niche in film making through the work My Lovely Day. She has continued to work with film throughout her career and describes the videos as montages, cut-and-paste images that move and unfold over time. Combined with text and music, film offers a wonderful opportunity for narrative.

In My Lovely Day Siopis cuts sequences from her mom's 8mm home movies that she took of their family life in the 50s and 60s, and the more public events that were caught in the sweep of her camera. She combined these with music and the remembered words of her grandmother, presented as subtitles. She wove the story of three generations of women, as a kind of transgenerational haunting. The story compresses historical time into one day. The historical moment of her telling is apartheid South Africa, but her references to social turmoil and catastrophe are to earlier times: the 'exchange of populations' following the Greco-Turkish conflict of 1919–1922, the massive migrations sparked by the two World Wars and the beginnings of the decolonisation of Africa.

Her mother's home movies led Siopis to the home movies of strangers, which she finds in flea markets and thrift shops in South Africa and on her travels abroad. She now has a huge archive of found film that she mines continually. Siopis sees the film as a ready-made in that it brings its own history and context into the scene. She cuts sequences from the film which she connects to the text in mostly allusive ways. So, whoever views it will shape their narrative too.

All the videos take a very particular story from South African history that has an elemental quality and speaks beyond its historical circumstances; two of them, Obscure White Messenger (2010) and The Master is Drowning (2012), look at the actual and attempted assassinations of apartheid Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd. Siopis draws on various archival sources to construct the narrative, and use different modes of address, but she prefers the first person. In Obscure White Messenger she uses a question and answer format, which she drew from the psychiatrist's report of the interview he had with Dimitrio Tsafendas, immediately after the murder. In the beginning of the film it is not easy to work out who is talking: who's the 'you' and who's the 'I'?.

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Collections

The artist's work is represented in major public collections in South Africa; international collections include the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and Tate, London.

Awards

Bibliography

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