Sonstraal is the first museum exhibition by collaborators Ben Stanwix and Xhanti Zwelendaba, presented as the festival artists for the 2025 Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees. Stanwix and Zwelendaba met while completing degrees at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2017, and have exhibited both independently and in collaboration since 2019.

This exhibition brings together works that emerge from a shared interest in questions about land, land use, landscape, and the historical legacies that shape these aspects of South Africa's contested modernity. Using common materials including woven produce bags, shade cloth, corrugated iron, fabric, grass mats, cowhide, and reclaimed flooring, the artists develop a visual language that connects rural life and an agricultural economy to ideas of state, religion, and nationhood.