Zangewa at the JoburgArtFair

For the JoburgArtFair, Zangewa will produce three large-scale, mise-en-scène works and one large installation that viewers will be able to enter. Her theme is The Garden (my garden):

“I share my personal experience of the garden space with people, and with the installation I’m taking them right into my space,” says Zangewa. “There are many narratives about the garden that have inspired the project: The Garden of Eden; The Constant Gardener and, in art, The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch and The Dream by Henri Rousseau.

“The garden is a kind of Utopia, but nature has a double personality — a beautiful side as well as a dark side. There is danger in the beauty; think of snakes, rapists. It is also a space for excess and indulgence, so my work will also speak to the sexual potency of the garden.”

Zangewa has exhibited extensively at institutions both locally and internationally, including at Art Paris Art Fair this year, Frieze London last year, MASS MoCA and Stedelijk Museum (2017), Studio Museum Harlem, Iziko South African National Gallery and Johannesburg Art Gallery (2016), Guggenheim Bilbao and WIELS (2015), La Maison Rouge (2013) and the

Menil Collection (2012). Her work is represented in several notable private and public collections, including the Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art collections.