Lemkus Gallery presents Spes Bona, a solo exhibition by Kamva Matuis. Originally from Burgersdorp in the Eastern Cape, Kamva Matuis (b. 2002) is an emerging artist and student at the Wits School of Art with a rare aptitude for figurative painting. Presented by Jared Leite, the exhibition marks the artist’s commercial debut in the city of Cape Town, and the second individual project hosted by Lemkus Gallery, independent from the residency28 programme.

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Despite his young age, Matuis’s education and life experience to date have formed in his burgeoning practice an impressive thematic range and representational ambit. His lens could be characterized by introspection and a particular attentiveness to the world—the social atmosphere and metaphysical paradigm of post-apartheid South Africa. Matuis draws inspiration from key moments, places, and figures of social and political history, but in ways that evoke an overarching sense of pessimism.

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