A Sea Inland calls on us to imagine an inland sea . The ocean has served as an icon of separation, violence, trauma and suffering, such as in the middle passage of the transatlantic slave trade, but is also a space for longing, dreaming, imagining and resistance. Consequently, A Sea Inland, perpetuates a myth that there is an inland sea.

Here imagination and ‘make-believe’ is seen as away of surviving – the artist invites viewers to join his myth of the inland sea and thereby rethink and recreate the urban space, who belongs in it, and how they can occupy it.

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Oupa Sibeko works predominantly in the medium of performance art, photography and video, as well as being a writer. For his graduate work, Sibeko was awarded a Richard Haines all- rounded performer award by Wits University in 2015. He has taken part in group and soloshows, including at the National Art Gallery of Namibia and The Freezer Hostel and Theatre in Iceland. In his work, he concentrates on the notion of an ‘in-betweenness of being’ in liminal space.

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