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Penny Siopis
10 quotes
“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.”
Penny Siopis (born 1953) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Duiker, Sello; Koloane, David; Kroner, Magdalena; Martin, Marilyn, New Identities: Contemporary Art From South Africa, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2005. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
“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”
Penny Siopis (born 1953) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bennet, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, Durham, Duke University Press, 2010, p122. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
“I was always interested in objects as carriers of meanings beyond themselves, they are physical traces of time, of people's lives and social histories, 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.”
Penny Siopis (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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".”
Penny Siopis (born 1953) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Penny Siopis in Gerrit Olivier, Penny Siopis:Time and Again, Wits University Press, Johannesburg 2014 pg 110/111. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
“The material process of the paintings is a fluid affair; the glue’s capacity to change its form and colour when it comes into contact with other forces – air, gravity, water, my gestures – imbues it with a presence that holds onto itself as ‘something other’, yet can simultaneously take on the guise of an image.”
Penny Siopis (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With global warming, what do we imagine? Burning? Drowning? Absolute alterity? And what forms – or formlessnesses – do we imagine this through?”
Penny Siopis (born 1953) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Siopis, Penny. "Warm Water Imaginaries". Stevenson. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
“You’re not just painting or making work about the empirical changes that you witness, but actually the psychological changes.”
Penny Siopis (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think people in the larger world are very interested in South Africa being a kind of microcosm of social-political experiences across the globe, but they often don’t have the sense of what it is: the psychological complexity of what it might mean to have lived in a society like ours, and still live in a society like ours.”
Penny Siopis (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We’re often afraid of change.”
Penny Siopis (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It always amazed me when people said under apartheid, ‘Oh, we can’t change overnight.’ Well, what the pandemic has said is yes, you change overnight: you can, we all do, it’s possible. And this is the global change. I embrace change, and I think my medium, the way I work with the medium, somehow gives a physical form to that embrace.”
Penny Siopis (born 1953) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Artist Interview: Penny Siopis – Shame, Or Pictures Of Perplexity BRUCEDENNILL, (4 October 2021)