Art Essay on Penny Siopis

What attracted me Penny Siopis was that the majority of her works are very obscure and layered with metaphors. The images that she presents are not those of the generalized South African style. Her works are very different in the sense that they explored media in much the same way as she explored her identity in contemporary South Africa.
The themes explored in Siopis' work are vast. Each installation, video and painting has its own story to tell and each, though similar in theme, are very different. She uses different media to say different things. …