Vela Projects is proud to present works by five Cape Town-based artists for the second edition of RMB Latitudes Art Fair.
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Alexis Schofield was born in 1982. He grew up in Pretoria, South Africa. He 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).

Dominic Pretorius was born in 1996 in Howick, South Africa. Currently, he lives and works in Cape Town.
In 2023, A Room Full of Urns, his first solo exhibition, premiered at the artist’s personal studio and has since been shown at the GUS Gallery and Marvol Gallery. His second solo exhibition Urn Burial was presented at Vela Projects in 2024. His work has been shown at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair (2023) and RMB Latitudes Art Fair (2024), and has been included in various group exhibitions, including Persistence of Memory, Spier Wine Farm (2024), Full House, blank projects (2023), Ten of Cups, 66 Plein Street (2023), Slip Stream, Gallery De MoveOn (2022), HELLMOUTH, 51 Buitenkant Street (2022) and Bluet, KSSO (2021).

Khanyi Mawhayi was born in 1998 in Kagiso, South Africa. Growing up in Johannesburg, she holds a BFA from the University of the Witwatersrand (2020). She is currently based in Cape Town, South Africa where she is a Curatorial Assistant at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.
She has held three solo shows in Cape Town, namely Midas Touch at CHURCH Projects (2023), Stage at Stevenson Gallery (2021). She has also participated in multiple group shows, including What We Know, Keyes Art Mile, Johannesburg (2023); STAGE 4, Stevenson Gallery at The Vault, Cape Town (2023); Zozimo Bulbul Black Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro (2022); Afropolis, Johannesburg (2022); Repair, The Point of Order, Johannesburg (2022); Monotypes… A Monotype Babe Experience Curatorial, Bag Factory Studios, Johannesburg (2021); Watercolor… monotypes, August House, Johannesburg (2021); Bluet, KSSO Editions, Cape Town (2021); Get up! Stand up!, Kampala Biennale, Online Exhibition (2020); as well as, Institute For Creative Arts, Online Exhibition (2020).

Songezo Zantsi was born in 1991 in Cape Town. 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).