Zama Magubane
Johannesburg · b. 1999
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Omama Bomthandazo (Women of Prayer)
1.5 x 1.5 m
R19,300
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Umkhulisi (The Nurturer)
1.5 x 1.5 m
R19,300
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Ben and Betty
2.1 x 1.45 m
R34,000
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Zama Magubane is a Johannesburg-based artist and cultural innovator whose work draws from African spirituality, heritage and history. They are known for large-scale canvases, fashion collaborations and performance projects such as Izinwele Zabantu and Uvalo Alusekho.
Their practice moves between painting, performance, design and research, asking how memory survives colonial interruption. The work earned them the United Nations Young Entrepreneur Award and the NYDA Trailblazer Award in 2023.
Uvalo Alusekho means no more fear. The collection came out of the aftermath of a near-fatal car accident in 2024, and it faces fear as both a personal wound and a collective inheritance. Each piece becomes a vessel, a site of ritual where vulnerability turns into power.
Omama Bomthandazo shows five women standing in formation with a sleeping child carried among them, and Umkhulisi places a child among the women, watching. Both look at how faith and care are passed on through closeness and observation rather than instruction. Ben and Betty comes from Izinwele Zabantu, an earlier body of work on African hair as a language of identity, heritage and belonging.