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GROUP EXHIBITION

SYMPTOM: Invisible Forces Bode 11 December 2025–7 February 2026 BODE @thestudio
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BODE @thestudio presents SYMPTOM: Invisible Forces, its inaugural group exhibition in Cape Town. SYMPTOM: Invisible Forces brings together works by ten standout artists, exploring surrealism as a living and spiritual reality in a contemporary African context. These artists do not perform surrealism, they manifest it, offering a vital transmutation of absurdity and dream into visibility. By communicating the tension between the mundane and the bizarre, each artist conjures figures between worlds, and explores memory and myth as living loci. They construct potent visual lexicons that refuse comfortability, expose the uncanny absurdity of systemic power, and entangle the individual and collective fates of the living and dead.

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Selected Works

6hr25 by Zilien contemporary artwork painting
Zilien 6hr25, 2025 Mixed media on canvas
66 x 60 cm
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And in a place that could be shaken by Cinthia Sifa Mulanga contemporary artwork painting
Cinthia Sifa Mulanga And in a place that could be shaken, 2025 Acrylic paint with oil pastels, charcoal and collage on canvas panel
30.5 x 30.5 cm
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Half Moon in Ivry by Thero Makepe contemporary artwork print
Thero Makepe Half Moon in Ivry, 2023 Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
38 x 35.4 cm
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Have you ever wondered by Cinthia Sifa Mulanga contemporary artwork painting
Cinthia Sifa Mulanga Have you ever wondered, 2025 Acrylic paint with oil pastels, charcoal and collage on canvas panel
30.5 x 30.5 cm
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I carry you more than I carry myself by Yonela Doda contemporary artwork works on paper
Yonela Doda I carry you more than I carry myself, 2021 Collage and thread on Fine Art Paper Framed in black box frame
42 x 29.7 cm
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In a place of silence by Cinthia Sifa Mulanga contemporary artwork painting
Cinthia Sifa Mulanga In a place of silence, 2025 Acrylic paint with oil pastels, charcoal and collage on canvas panel
30.5 x 30.5 cm
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Is this your love by Zilien contemporary artwork painting
Zilien Is this your love?, 2025 Mixed media on canvas
64 x 62 cm
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Lost connection by Zilien contemporary artwork painting
Zilien Lost connection, 2025 Acrylic on canvas
75 x 75 cm
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Ngulube Yamanzi by Masindi Nafisa Mbolekwa contemporary artwork painting
Masindi Nafisa Mbolekwa Ngulube Yamanzi, 2025 Oil on canvas
130 x 160 cm
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Segues by Ntsako Nkuna contemporary artwork print
Ntsako Nkuna Segues, 2025 1 Color silkscreen print on mdf mounted on fabricated mild steel frame
80 x 43 x 31 cm
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That they could exist all at once by Cinthia Sifa Mulanga contemporary artwork painting
Cinthia Sifa Mulanga That they could exist all at once, 2025 Acrylic paint with oil pastels, charcoal and collage on canvas panel
30.5 x 30.5 cm
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The day we stand together by Zilien contemporary artwork painting
Zilien The day we stand together, 2025 Acrylic on canvas
110 x 95 cm
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Untitled 1 by Thando Phenyane contemporary artwork painting
Thando Phenyane Untitled 1, 2025 Acrylic on canvas
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Untitled 4 by Thando Phenyane contemporary artwork painting
Thando Phenyane Untitled 4, 2025 Acrylic on canvas
121.9 x 91.4 cm
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You know exactly how it feels by Yonela Doda contemporary artwork works on paper
Yonela Doda You know exactly how it feels, 2021 Collage and thread on Fine Art Paper Framed in black box frame
42 x 29.7 cm
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You let me in while showing me the way out by Yonela Doda contemporary artwork works on paper
Yonela Doda You let me in while showing me the way out, 2021 Collage and thread on Fine Art Paper Framed in black box frame
42 x 29.7 cm
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Artists Exhibiting

Cinthia Sifa Mulanga contemporary artist
Cinthia Sifa Mulanga b. 1997 Follow +
Thero Makepe contemporary artist
Thero Makepe b. 1996 Follow +
Natalie Paneng contemporary artist
Natalie Paneng b. 1996 Follow +
Thando Phenyane contemporary artist
Thando Phenyane b. 1997 Follow +
Yonela Doda contemporary artist
Yonela Doda b. 1998 Follow +
Masindi Nafisa Mbolekwa contemporary artist
Masindi Nafisa Mbolekwa b. 2002 Follow +
Ntsako Nkuna contemporary artist
Ntsako Nkuna b. 2001 Follow +
Zilien contemporary artist
Zilien b. 1995 Follow +
Mhlonishwa Zulu contemporary artist
Mhlonishwa Zulu b. 2002 Follow +
Tshepo Phokojoe contemporary artist
Tshepo Phokojoe b. 1995 Follow +

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