Penny Siopis
Pumla Dineo Gqola - New Frame

March 2021
New Frame

'So, what does it mean to tend to shame? For Siopis, it is to highlight its birthplaces as well as its possibilities. After all, shame may be a constant political and personal haunting, but its relational textures enable the possibility of empathy and transformation': Pumla Dineo Gqola reflects on Penny Siopis' discussions of shame, across film and painting.

Frieze Magazine, March 2015

'Time and Again gorgously lays bare the repetitions at the core of Siopis' practice' writes Sean O'Toole on Siopis' 35-year career survey exhibition at the Iziko South African National Gallery 

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