One-night stands in white mustangs is a solo exhibition of new ceramic works by Johannesburg-based artist Amogelang Maepa. Working between poetry and clay, Maepa develops each work from a written text. The sculptures do not illustrate these poems; instead, they translate their tension, rhythm, and internal pressure into material form.

The exhibition brings together five ceramic sculptures shaped through processes of repetition, pressure, and return. Subtle distortions, thickened edges, and porous surfaces suggest material that has gathered and built up over time, as if pressure from within has forced its way outward. The forms convey a sense of internal activity, with cellular textures, clustered deposits, and areas of rupture and spread.

Across the series, Maepa approaches desire not as fulfilment, but as repetition. Forms recur without stabilising. Surfaces retain the traces of what has passed through them. Each work holds the residue of process rather than presenting a finished state.

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