Dineo Seshee Bopape
Published by Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2022, 256 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 11 × 16.5 cm, English
Price: €17 (Out of stock)
With her “notebook of dreams” Dineo Seshee Bopape transports you into the world of African scents. The book has been left mostly unprinted, but each right-hand page is coated with a scented print varnish manufactured using a traditional hydro-distillation technique out of the material of earthenware clay vessels to simulate the fragrance of parched soil and withered plants after a rainstorm. Reinforcing this sense perception associated with powerful emotions and memories, a QR code opens an audio file recorded by Bopape that enhances the experience of rain with an acoustic dimension.