Yolanda Mazwana
Yolanda Mazwana (b. 1996 – Eastern Cape, SA) is a self-taught visual artist based in Johannesburg, currently specializing in painting. Her work is centred around mental illness, popular culture, phobias, relationships and storytelling and her style being described as an amalgamation of abstract expressionism, neo-expressionism and symbolism. She currently lives and works in Johannesburg. Mazwana’s recent solo exhibition Symptoms of Nothing at Kalashnikovv Gallery (2019) explored experiences, scenarios, thoughts, panic attacks and environments that were re-imagined into characters that represent the questions of a possible hypochondriac. Following her previous solo exhibition Secret Homegirls at Daville Baillie Gallery (2019), Mazwana delved further into the observation of the agoraphobic secret home girls. As a body of work Symptoms of Nothing is a combination of textures and colours that define the intensity expressed of a hypochondriac. These compositions determine what it means to not know what you are going through or why you are going through it.
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Symptoms Of Nothing – Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
2019 Secret Homegirls – Daville Baillie Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
Selected Group Exhibitions & Projects
2019 Summer Salon – The Bag Factory, Johannesburg, RSA
2019 RMB Talent Unlocked 2019 Programme – RMB Turbine in association with
Assemblage, Johannesburg, RSA
2017 My First Time – Touch of Genius Gallery, Randburg, RSA
2017 A New Black – Afropunk Festival, Johannesburg, RSA
Residences & Awards
2019 The Bag Factory Young Woman Studio Bursary, The Bag Factory, Johannesburg, RSA
Art Fairs
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, RSA (2020)
FNB Art Joburg Fair, Johannesburg, RSA (2019)
RMB Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg, RSA (2019)
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