Vela Projects is proud to present a focused selection of works by contemporary artists at the 13th edition of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair. The presentation brings together diverse young. practicesthat interrogate ecological precarity, identity formation, labour, and culturalmemory through sculpture, painting, drawing, and mixed media.
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Biography
Alexis Schofield (b. 1982, Pretoria) currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. Our Calves Demand a Wolf is his third exhibition, following Impressions (2023) and Feed (2023) at 99 Loop Gallery. His work has been included in a number of group exhibitions, including Sessions at 196 Victoria (2024) and Hot Spell (2023) at 99 Loop Gallery as well as art fairs such as RMB Latitudes (2024) and Investec Cape Town Art Fair (2022 - 2024).
Khanya Zibaya (b. 1994, Sikoto, South Africa) is a multidisciplinary artist, born in a small village in the Eastern Cape called Sikote in Tlokoeng. He now lives and practices in Johannesburg. Zibaya works with visual performance, experimental video work, experimental painting, sculptural, installation and photography. This also includes bodies and found objects to create contrast of realities. His previous group exhibitions include, The Portrait Show, Through The Lens Collective, Johannesburg, 2023; Got Junk Gold Fingers, The Fourth Gallery, Cape Town, 2023; Post Fair Blues, The Fourth Gallery, Cape Town, 2023; The Wildest Most Beautiful Ugly, Too Tired Project, Digital, 2023; Investec Cape Town Art Fair, 2025, Vela Projects and LagosPhoto Biennial, Nigeria, 2025.
Songezo Zantsi (b. 1991, Cape Town) is a painter. He grew up with his grandparents in Alice, a historically significant town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. He currently lives and works in Cape Town. In 2022, Zantsi presented his first solo exhibition titled IInkumbulo and in 2024 is second Iyabulela Ilali at Vela Projects, Cape Town. He has been part of group exhibitions at the Association of Visual Arts, Cape Town (2021) and Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town (2022).
Emma Wootton (b.2002 South Africa) works, and lives in Cape Town. Her focus on soft sculpture is shaped by her lifelong interest in fibre arts.
In 2024 she graduated with distinction from Michaelis School of Fine Art, majoring in sculpture and print making. She was co-awarded the Michaelis Prize in 2024, and the Simon Gerson Prize in Both 2023 and 2024
