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ROOM SPOTLIGHT | What is UndoneWhat does it mean to rework what the body carries?In this space, Martin-Davis engages wit...
25/06/2026

ROOM SPOTLIGHT | What is Undone

What does it mean to rework what the body carries?

In this space, Martin-Davis engages with inherited patterns through an embodied process of reorientation. The archive is not presented as fixed or passive, but as something that can be actively revisited and reshaped through care, agency, and awareness. Memory shifts from something imposed to something authored (Martin-Davis, 2025).

Rather than seeking resolution, the work holds space for ongoing negotiation. The body continues to carry memory across generations, yet here it is approached with the possibility of choice, dialogue, and gentle transformation; a living archive in motion.

We may not always be able to control what we inherit, but we can begin to consider how we respond to it.

Featured Artist:
Jesse Martin-Davis

On view as part of What the Body Keeps | A Recent Graduate Show at Hazendal Wine Estate.

Introducing Lisakhanya NgqobaLisakhanya Ngqoba (born in Makhanda, Grahamstown) is a Cape Town based artist and graduate ...
19/06/2026

Introducing Lisakhanya Ngqoba

Lisakhanya Ngqoba (born in Makhanda, Grahamstown) is a Cape Town based artist and graduate of the Michaelis School of Fine Art. Ngqoba works across photography, installation, oral history and memory, tracing routes and roots that connect personal journeys to wider questions of land, family and belonging.

Her practice is grounded in the landscapes of the Eastern Cape and Western Cape and considers the body as a living archive shaped by movement, labour and transformation. Through familial oral histories and material processes, Ngqoba reimagines the archive as something active and continuously evolving.

Working with cotton, calico, imbola and textiles referencing umbhaco and iityali, she weaves ancestral memory into contemporary form. Acts of stitching and layering in her work reflect generational labour and care, particularly that of women, creating a space where memory remains in motion and where what is fragile, unspoken and becoming is held with attention.

Discover her work as part of What the Body Keeps | A Recent Graduate Exhibition at Hazendal Wine Estate.

ROOM SPOTLIGHT | What is Carried How do we carry what we did not choose?In this space, Lisakhanya Ngqoba and Robyn Norva...
11/06/2026

ROOM SPOTLIGHT | What is Carried

How do we carry what we did not choose?

In this space, Lisakhanya Ngqoba and Robyn Norval explore the body as a living archive, tracing the ways memory, trauma, illness, and lineage are inherited and carried across generations. The body becomes both biological and relational, shaped through family histories, oral narratives, and invisible inheritances.

Navigating the delicate space between protection and vulnerability, the works reflect on how the past continues to live within the present; held quietly within the body, even beyond conscious awareness (Ngqoba, 2025).

On view as part of What the Body Keeps | A Recent Graduate Show at Hazendal Wine Estate.

Featured Artists:
Lisakhanya Ngqoba | Robyn Norval

Introducing Katja MarsigliaKatja Marsiglia holds an Honours degree in Visual Arts and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology ...
02/06/2026

Introducing Katja Marsiglia

Katja Marsiglia holds an Honours degree in Visual Arts and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Stellenbosch University. Her interdisciplinary practice operates between fine art and psychological inquiry, examining how trauma is registered, processed, and rearticulated through the body.

Working across layered surfaces, stitching, distortion, and repetition, Marsiglia draws on affect theory and neuropsychology to translate internal states into visual form. Her work centres on sensation, mapping fragmentation, tension, and repair as they unfold across the surface.

Marsiglia approaches the body as a shifting field of perception, where memory remains unstable and continuously rewritten. Using skin-like surfaces, her works explore the boundary between inner and outer experience, giving form to what is often felt but unseen.

Discover her work as part of What the Body Keeps | A Recent Graduate Exhibition, on show until the end of June 2026.

Introducing Olorato MakgaleOlorato Makgale (b. 2002) holds a Fine Arts degree from Stellenbosch University. Her practice...
26/05/2026

Introducing Olorato Makgale

Olorato Makgale (b. 2002) holds a Fine Arts degree from Stellenbosch University. Her practice is rooted in personal memory and material exploration, working primarily in sculpture and installation.

Using found and everyday materials, Makgale constructs tactile forms through binding, suspending, folding, and layering. Her intuitive, process-driven approach allows materials to guide the emergence of meaning, engaging themes of vulnerability, rupture, and repair, where making becomes both release and reconstitution.

Makgale treats material as a carrier of lived experience, where fragile, worn, and altered surfaces hold traces of endurance. Her suspended, often precarious forms evoke emotional states that resist containment, opening space to reflect on how the body navigates and survives strain. Her work foregrounds resilience as quiet, ongoing, and materially inscribed.

Discover her work as part of What the Body Keeps | A Recent Graduate Exhibition, on show until the end of June 2026.

ROOM SPOTLIGHT | What Cannot be SpokenHow does the body remember what language cannot hold?In this space, Olorato Makgal...
25/05/2026

ROOM SPOTLIGHT | What Cannot be Spoken

How does the body remember what language cannot hold?

In this space, Olorato Makgale and Katja Marsiglia explore the body as a living archive, tracing the ways trauma is held, remembered, and carried within it. The body becomes an unstable archive, responding in unpredictable ways through gesture, tension, and repetition.

When memory fractures and words fail, the body continues to bear witness — carrying the silent but persistent echo of trauma alongside the quiet labour of healing (Makgale, 2025).

On view as part of What the Body Keeps | A Recent Graduate Show at Hazendal Wine Estate.

Introducing Robyn NorvalRobyn Norval (b. 2003) is a recent graduate of the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town, wo...
12/05/2026

Introducing Robyn Norval

Robyn Norval (b. 2003) is a recent graduate of the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town, working across sculpture, metalwork, and ceramics. Her practice reflects on the everyday and the ways personal narratives shift and evolve over time.

Presented as part of What the Body Keeps, Norval’s work approaches the body as a living archive of memory, inheritance, and trauma. Through layering, repetition, and tactile material processes, she reflects on maternal lineage and the unseen experiences that shape identity across generations.

Fragility and resilience remain central to her practice, informed by her family’s neurological history. Through meditative installations and symbolic references to natural forms, Norval creates contemplative spaces where memory, loss, presence, and continuity quietly converge.

Discover her work as part of What the Body Keeps | A Recent Graduate Show.

NOW SHOWING | What the Body Keeps | A Recent Graduate ShowWhat the Body Keeps brings together recent graduates whose pra...
30/04/2026

NOW SHOWING | What the Body Keeps | A Recent Graduate Show

What the Body Keeps brings together recent graduates whose practices explore memory, inheritance, and the body as a living archive.

Through painting, sculpture, installation, and material exploration, these artists reflect on rupture, lineage, and reclamation. Their works consider how the body carries what official histories often leave behind, holding experiences, emotions, and memories that words cannot always contain.

The exhibition explores the body as a site of transformation and becoming, where personal and collective histories are reshaped through acts of care, reflection, and resistance. Each work invites us to consider how we remember, how we heal, and how we imagine new futures through what the body holds.

Featuring works by
Olorato Makgale | Katja Marsiglia | Lisakhanya Ngqoba | Robyn Norval | Jesse Martin-Davis

We’re so excited to share a featured post on our recent exhibition, What the Body Keeps | A Recent Graduate Exhibition, ...
25/04/2026

We’re so excited to share a featured post on our recent exhibition, What the Body Keeps | A Recent Graduate Exhibition, by Avuyile Conjwa for Die Matie.
It is always incredibly special to see thoughtful reflections on the exhibition and the conversations it continues to inspire.

https://diematie.com/2026/04/what-the-body-keeps-art-exhibition-asks-where-do-lost-memories-go/

Come and experience What the Body Keeps | A Recent Graduate Exhibition.
The exhibition brings together recent graduates whose works explore how the body remembers through rupture, lineage, and reclamation. Even when official histories omit or distort lived experience, the body continues to remember.

We cannot always choose what happens to us, but we can choose how we respond. By reshaping, reimagining, and giving form to experience, what the body holds becomes an act of care, reflection, and transformation.
We invite you to come view the artworks and engage with these powerful conversations held within each piece.

Featured Artists:
Katja Marsiglia | Olorato Makgale | Lisakhanya Ngqoba | Robyn Norval | Jesse Martin- Davis

What the Body Keeps | A Recent Graduate ShowDate: Saturday, 11 April 2026Location: The Gallery at Hazendal Wine EstateWh...
07/04/2026

What the Body Keeps | A Recent Graduate Show

Date: Saturday, 11 April 2026
Location: The Gallery at Hazendal Wine Estate

What the Body Keeps invites guests to engage with the body as a living archive — where memory, experience, and lineage quietly reside. Through a contemplative and immersive lens, recent graduates explore themes of trauma, resilience, and inheritance.

Featured Artists:
Olorato Makgale | Katja Marsiglia | Jesse Martin-Davis | Robyn Norval | Lisakhanya Ngqoba

Exhibition Opening
11h00 for 11h30 – 13h00 | Public & Free

Optional Experience: Sound Healing & Two-Course Lunch | R650 pp
Begin with a sound healing session (09h30 – 11h00), facilitated by Vanessa Dinkhoff, offering a moment of stillness and inward connection. Guests are then guided to the exhibition opening, followed by a two-course lunch from 12h30 at Siyalima.

Tickets for the add-on experience are available via Quicket.

A gentle, layered experience of reflection, presence, and connection with what the body holds.

https://www.quicket.co.za/events/311815-what-the-body-keeps-a-recent-graduate-show/ #/

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