PRESS RELEASE
CUBICLE
Jan 12 – Jan 24, 2026
CUBICLE
12 January 2026 - 24 January
Everard Read Cape Town
3 Portswood Rd
Walkabout and drinks on the lawn: Saturday, 24 January at 10am.
Cubicle is an ongoing platform at Everard Read Cape Town, giving artists scope to exhibit smaller bodies of artworks and site-specific installations for a two week period.
FEATURING
KUTTI COLLECTIVE | KAROU
MBULELO PARADISE LOKOTO | THE BLUES OF MAKASANA
LEAH "LUX" MASCHER | SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE NIGHT
KAMVA MATUIS | INDEBE YAM IYAPHALALA
AARON PHILANDER | JACK IN THE BOX
TURNING INTO FLOWERS | OUMIE’S FLOWERS
KUTTI COLLECTIVE | KAROU
The Kutti Collective started the event KAROU six years ago – and have been reminding people that ‘it means spicy’ ever since. The collective has always understood the power and pleasure of social gatherings, highlighting the diverse potentialities of the dancefloor through play, ritual and fantasy. Bridging creative spaces, the Cubicle show takes the same name, as the collective tries its hand at offering gallery audiences an experience of KAROU.
The Kutti Collective started the event KAROU six years ago – and have been reminding people that ‘it means spicy’ ever since. The collective has always understood the power and pleasure of social gatherings, highlighting the diverse potentialities of the dancefloor through play, ritual and fantasy. Bridging creative spaces, the Cubicle show takes the same name, as the collective tries its hand at offering gallery audiences an experience of KAROU.
MBULELO PARADISE LOKOTO | THE BLUES OF MAKASANA
Inspired by his upbringing in East London and Khayelitsha, we are ushered into the artist’s intuitive world and his expansive view on the intricate livelihood of the township, rooted in rhythm and colour. At first glance, the reference to “blues” might seem solely tied to the monochromatic backgrounds that bleed through the collection. However, the blue backdrops are also a nod to the raw, soulful and rhythmic musical genre of the Blues. Lokoto explains “There are many rhythms in the lokshin”, likening the nature of Blues music to a township's culture and lifestyle. Much like the Blues, distinct instrumentalists must come together to create harmony. Township life is sustained through a collective coexistence. - Nirel Sithole
Inspired by his upbringing in East London and Khayelitsha, we are ushered into the artist’s intuitive world and his expansive view on the intricate livelihood of the township, rooted in rhythm and colour. At first glance, the reference to “blues” might seem solely tied to the monochromatic backgrounds that bleed through the collection. However, the blue backdrops are also a nod to the raw, soulful and rhythmic musical genre of the Blues. Lokoto explains “There are many rhythms in the lokshin”, likening the nature of Blues music to a township's culture and lifestyle. Much like the Blues, distinct instrumentalists must come together to create harmony. Township life is sustained through a collective coexistence. - Nirel Sithole
LEAH "LUX" MASCHER | SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE NIGHT
“So many people in the night” is a line from the song Slums (1988) by Senyaka. It is an upbeat kwaito-style song about loneliness and the possibility of connection. Leah “Lux” Mascher uses this as a starting point for a pilgrimage for both artist and the audience to explore transcendence, time, mountains and the merchandizing of pop culture.
“So many people in the night” is a line from the song Slums (1988) by Senyaka. It is an upbeat kwaito-style song about loneliness and the possibility of connection. Leah “Lux” Mascher uses this as a starting point for a pilgrimage for both artist and the audience to explore transcendence, time, mountains and the merchandizing of pop culture.
KAMVA MATUIS | INDEBE YAM IYAPHALALA
To be Black is a blessing and, like most fortunes, complications are inevitable. With Indebe Yam Iyaphalala (My Cup Runneth Over), Kamva Matuis presents the inner workings of a deeply meditative and reflective disposition. The artist invites us into a conversation rooted in soil, as the context from which this body of work emerges is not easily uprooted. This exchange unfolds confrontationally, addressing inherited struggle, contradiction, control and the enduring legacies of a post-colonial South Africa.- Nirel Sithole
To be Black is a blessing and, like most fortunes, complications are inevitable. With Indebe Yam Iyaphalala (My Cup Runneth Over), Kamva Matuis presents the inner workings of a deeply meditative and reflective disposition. The artist invites us into a conversation rooted in soil, as the context from which this body of work emerges is not easily uprooted. This exchange unfolds confrontationally, addressing inherited struggle, contradiction, control and the enduring legacies of a post-colonial South Africa.- Nirel Sithole
AARON PHILANDER | JACK IN THE BOX
This body of work acts as a continuation of previous practices, in which I engage with found and scavenged materials as a means of thinking through colouredness – not as something static, but as a lived-in and shifting condition. The works emerge from personal experience, yet remain grounded in broader questions of belonging, inheritance and self-formation within post-democratic South Africa.
This body of work acts as a continuation of previous practices, in which I engage with found and scavenged materials as a means of thinking through colouredness – not as something static, but as a lived-in and shifting condition. The works emerge from personal experience, yet remain grounded in broader questions of belonging, inheritance and self-formation within post-democratic South Africa.
TURNING INTO FLOWERS | OUMIE’S FLOWERS
In the veld we meet our beloved dead through the flowers they loved, through the touch and taste and scent of the plants they taught us. Our plant kin are interwoven through our lives not only in their properties and natural beauty but through our Aunties’ and Uncles’ and Ancestors’ love and knowledge of them. Through the things that they teach us about the land we walk and live on and the memories they hold of those who have gone before and who will come after.
Collective Turning into Flowers is a botanical dialogue between art and science that explores the heritage of flowers.
In the veld we meet our beloved dead through the flowers they loved, through the touch and taste and scent of the plants they taught us. Our plant kin are interwoven through our lives not only in their properties and natural beauty but through our Aunties’ and Uncles’ and Ancestors’ love and knowledge of them. Through the things that they teach us about the land we walk and live on and the memories they hold of those who have gone before and who will come after.
Collective Turning into Flowers is a botanical dialogue between art and science that explores the heritage of flowers.
EVERARD READ CAPE TOWN - 3 Portswood Road
Cape Town, 8002
South Africa
+27 21 418 4527 | ctgallery@everard.co.za
Operating hours:
Monday - Friday 9:00 - 17:00
Saturday - 9:00 - 13:00
If you are looking to add to your collection and you are unable to make it to our gallery during operating hours, please contact us via ctgallery@everard.co.za to make an appointment outside of these hours.
