{"title":"Zama Cebisile Mwandla","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/8009\/7897\/files\/zama.jpg?v=1756886072\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"200\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"288\" data-end=\"688\"\u003eRMA Young Artists' Project 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"288\" data-end=\"688\"\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"291\" data-end=\"315\"\u003eDisgust, Fear and Hell\u003c\/em\u003e,  Mwandla confronts the spiritual and psychological burden of living in a world that continuously violates women physically, emotionally, and symbolically. This body of work emerges as a direct, intimate response to the violence she witnesses both in South Africa and globally: a culture of harm that infiltrates the everyday, distorts identity, and corrodes the soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"690\" data-end=\"773\"\u003eThe title reflects the emotional and psychic landscape through which Mwandla moves\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eDisgust at the cruelty and systemic disregard for the feminine body. Fear of erasure, of violation, of becoming endlessly unseen. Hell as both a lived and inherited condition, where memory and present terror coexist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1015\" data-end=\"1480\"\u003eThese works are not statements of resolution but raw manifestations layered expressions of dread, anguish, and resistance. While painting remains central to her practice, Mwandla expands her visual vocabulary in this exhibition to include fabric and experimental materials. Fabric here becomes a metaphorical skin at once soft and scarring, protective and ruptured. It stands in for the body, the wound, the ghost evoking the sensory and emotional weight of trauma.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1482\" data-end=\"1983\"\u003eHer visual language is rooted in symbolic storytelling, personal mythology, and the logic of dreams. Throughout the exhibition, hybrid, mystical figures part spirit, part creature populate the canvases. These beings embody complex emotional states and serve as both self-portraits and collective avatars. Drawing from religious iconography, myth, and surrealist tradition, Mwandla creates liminal spaces where the sacred collides with the grotesque, and where transformation is ongoing but unresolved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1985\" data-end=\"2346\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1985\" data-end=\"2009\"\u003eDisgust, Fear and Hell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edoes not offer healing. Instead, it immerses the viewer in the rawness of survival. It poses urgent questions: What happens to the soul when the world becomes uninhabitable? And what can art hold when words no longer suffice? Through this work, Mwandla does not search for closure but rather exposes what healing must first endure.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"i-feel","title":"I feel...","description":"\u003cp\u003eZama Cebisile Mwandla \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI feel...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWooden board, colourful wool, keyboard keys, foil, cement, thatch fabric and acrylic paint\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e60 x 26 x 40\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zama Cebisile Mwandla","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42517897937001,"sku":null,"price":5000.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/8009\/7897\/files\/2025-08-24YoungArtists_Project2025-Ifeel...-Mwandla-Catalogue_PauloMenezes-25.jpg?v=1756538860"},{"product_id":"eww-disgusting-sis","title":"Eww, disgusting sis..","description":"\u003cp\u003eZama Cebisile Mwandla \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEww, Disgusting sis..\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFabric and mixed media on plastic base\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e33 x 33\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zama Cebisile Mwandla","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42517898887273,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/8009\/7897\/files\/2025-08-24YoungArtists_Project2025-Eww_Disgustingsis-Mwandla-Catalogue_PauloMenezes-5.jpg?v=1756539165"},{"product_id":"the-heavens-still-burn-while-earth-trembles-diptych","title":"The heavens still burn, while Earth Trembles (Diptych)","description":"\u003cp\u003eZama Cebisile Mwandla \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe heavens still burn, while Earth Trembles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e( Diptych: two part artwork )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOil, acrylic and fabric on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e126 x 78\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zama Cebisile Mwandla","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42517903638633,"sku":null,"price":23000.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/8009\/7897\/files\/2025-08-24YoungArtists_Project2025-Theheavensstillburn-Mwandla-Catalogue_PauloMenezes-1.jpg?v=1756539483"},{"product_id":"the-rituals-of-the-vile","title":"The Rituals of the Vile","description":"\u003cp\u003eZama Cebsile Mwandla\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ritual of the Vile\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOil, fabric and embrodery on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e133 x 70\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zama Cebisile Mwandla","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42517911535721,"sku":null,"price":17000.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/8009\/7897\/files\/2025-08-24YoungArtists_Project2025-TheRitualsoftheVile-Mwandla-Catalogue_PauloMenezes-7.jpg?v=1756540009"},{"product_id":"lets-pour-one-out-for-the-period","title":"Let's pour one out for the period!","description":"\u003cp\u003eZama Cebisile Mwandla \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLet's pour one out for the period!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFabric (cotton), embroidery, foil, keyboard keys, wooden board, glass bottles and oil paintings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e200 x 40 x 90\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zama Cebisile Mwandla","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42517913174121,"sku":null,"price":15000.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/8009\/7897\/files\/2025-08-24YoungArtists_Project2025-LetsPourOutOneFortePeriodSideView-Mwandla-Catalogue_PauloMenezes-14.jpg?v=1756540417"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/8009\/7897\/collections\/2025-08-24YoungArtists_Project2025-Ifeel...-Mwandla-Catalogue_PauloMenezes-25.jpg?v=1765885519","url":"https:\/\/shop.kznsagallery.co.za\/collections\/zama-cebisile-mwandla.oembed","provider":"KZNSA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}