Yolanda Mazwana

尤兰达·马兹瓦纳

Born in 1996 in Port Elizabeth, RSA, Yolanda Mazwana is a self-taught artist whose work explores themes related to mental illness, phobias, popular culture, and relationships. She combines elements of abstract expressionism, neo-expressionism, and symbolism in her paintings. Mazwana's series "Symptoms of Nothing" (2019) uses color and texture to depict the ambiguous experiences of individuals suffering from hypochondria. This symbolic use of color and texture reflects the idea that hypochondriacs may not fully understand their experiences or the reasons behind them. Her debut solo exhibition "Secret Homegirls" (2019) focuses on observing agoraphobic individuals, known as secret homegirls, forming the central focus of her body of work.

1996年出生于南非波特伊丽莎白的尤兰达·马兹瓦纳是一位自学成才的艺术家，她的作品探索了与精神疾病、恐惧症、流行文化和人际关系相关的主题。她在绘画中融合了抽象表现主义、新表现主义和象征主义的元素。马兹瓦纳2019年的系列作品《无所症状》使用色彩和质地来描绘患有疑病症个体的模糊体验。这种色彩和质地的象征性使用反映了疑病症患者可能无法完全理解他们的经历或背后的原因。随后，她在同年举办的首次个展《秘密的女伙伴们》，聚焦于观察患有广场恐惧症的个体，也就是所谓的秘密女伙伴，成为她作品的核心关注点。

Highlights

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In 2020, Mazwana was granted The Bag Factory Young Woman Studio Bursary in Johannesburg. During the same year, she received the second prize for the Emerging Painting Invitational Prize in Harare, Zimbabwe. Recently, she took part in the NIROX Foundation Artist Residency and THE FOURTH Artist Residency Programme in South Africa. Her artwork has been exhibited at multiple public and private venues in South Africa and Berlin, Germany.

2020年，尤兰达·马兹瓦纳获得了位于约翰内斯堡的The Bag Factory Young Woman Studio Bursary。同年，她还获得了津巴布韦哈拉雷Emerging Painting Invitational Prize的第二名。最近，她参加了南非NIROX基金会艺术家驻地项目以及THE FOURTH艺术家驻地计划。她的作品曾在南非和德国柏林的多个公共和私人场所展出。

Words from the curator

策展人的话

Mazwana says, “I paint unusual formative characters to connect the dots about the questions around the female body, and what it goes through. I vent about the vulnerabilities of the mind, the emotions, the reproductive system and how our physical and physiological responses to trauma aect us. How our bodies respond to medications and the things that go misdiagnosed, The things that are going to be dismissed and forgotten, the things we have to protect ourselves from. The things we choose to keep hidden, to be healed and protected."

马兹瓦纳说：“我绘制非常规的形象，用以揭示围绕女性身体的问题，并探讨她们所经历的事情。我抒发对心灵、情感、生殖系统的脆弱性的担忧，以及我们对创伤的身体和生理反应如何影响我们。我们的身体如何对药物作出反应以及被误诊的事情，那些将被忽视和遗忘的事情，我们必须保护自己的事情。我们选择隐藏的事情，以求疗愈和保护。”