Scholarly Archive
Archive of Works
A structured scholarly record of selected works drawn from Stevenson Gallery exhibition records, ArtThrob critical reviews, and international auction provenance. Each entry opens a dedicated record with full metadata, scholarly notes, and citation reference — compiled for researchers, curators, and institutional study.
Scholarly Archive
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Chronological Period
Era I
2006 – 2012
Early figurative and sociopolitical practice. The artist maps historical violence, state power, and the Black body's subjugation through references to global political imagery, performance, and drawing. Cow dung begins to appear as an occasional material alongside oil and earth.
3 works documented
Chronological Period
Era II
2013 – 2017
Deepening sociohistorical and conceptual painting. Cow dung becomes the dominant medium. The artist coins the term Archetypocalypse and begins dismantling western ideological archetypes as subjects of painting. Text enters the work as a formal and critical element.
17 works documented
Chronological Period
Era III
2018 – 2022
A decisive non-figurative turn. Representational imagery gives way to cosmological, spiritual, and ontological inquiry. The isiXhosa modality — ancestral knowledge, sacred ecology, indigenous metaphysics — moves to the centre of the work's conceptual architecture.
18 works documented
Chronological Period
Era IV
2023 – Present
Mature Archetypocalypse philosophy. Expanded media: bronze sculpture, neon, installation, performance. The practice addresses decolonial knowledge production, archetype dissolution, and the structure of consciousness itself, operating simultaneously as fine art and philosophical praxis.
18 works documented
Archive Note
All works © Mawande Ka Zenzile. Exhibition photography © Stevenson Gallery (Cape Town, Johannesburg, Amsterdam) unless otherwise noted. Data drawn from Stevenson Gallery (stevenson.info), ArtThrob, Artsy, Bonhams, and Sotheby's. Reproduction requires permission from the artist and Stevenson Gallery. stevenson.info/contact