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M K Zenzile | Indlela Ibuzwa Kwabaphambili Solo Exhibition | STEVENSON, Cape Town | 4 July – 15 August 2026 Filmed during the opening of the exhibition, this short film moves through the gallery space and the works on view. In conversation, Mawande Ka Zenzile spoke about painting as a form of meditation: a practice of waiting until the mind becomes quiet enough to be passed through, or momentarily left behind. His process depends on this state of heightened presence, where painting is not forced into being, but allowed to emerge from attention, stillness and the immediacy of the moment. The exhibition extends this meditative process into a body of work where line, colour and material become pathways through memory, ancestry, African and isiXhosa knowledge systems, and other ways of knowing….

1 the soil of text | 2 the text of soil Art Formes, Cape Town, A GROUP EXHIBITION  16.04.26 – 09.06.26 Notes from…

I attended the opening of Penny Siopis’s solo exhibition Love in a Turning World at STEVENSON, Cape Town, on 7 February 2026. The…

suicidal liberalism? I’m writing this in my own register: direct, image-led, a little impatient with pretence, and worried about what gets…

exhibition opening | Luis MS Santos Luís M.S. Santos’s debut South African solo exhibition,  menino, não fala política (“kid, don’t talk politics”), runs…