Boemo Diale News Today

At the recent Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Boemo Diale won the prestigious Tomorrows/Today Prize for her exhibition entitled Going Home. Carrying an R 80,000

“Let’s keep in touch,” reads an inscription on a pink ceramic vessel by Cape Town–based sculptor Githan Coopoo that has been placed near the entrance to the Investec Cape Town Art Fair.

Architects, fashion designers and tastemakers descend on Johannesburg’s premium design event

“I just can’t believe the things people say to me/ Am I black or white?/ Am I straight or gay?” These words by the late musician Prince from his 1981 song Controversy resonate in my head as I listen to Boemo Diale speak. The young artist’s first show, Permaculture, opened at Kalashnikovv Gallery in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, at the beginning of May. Although she describes herself as a black Motswana woman, the artist is not shying away from her racial ambiguity, making it the subject...