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Wunika Mukan Gallery is pleased to present “Afro Pop”, a presentation of works by Kamila Soares, Themba Sibeko, and Edozie Anedu at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2026. Bringing together three distinct yet interconnected practices, Afro Pop explores color, excitement, love, electric and vibrant transformation through painting and visual storytelling. Rooted in lived experience, the works reflect on how personal histories and cultural symbols continue to shape our present moment.
Through this exhibition, the gallery highlights the varied yet interconnected ways each artist approaches storytelling and meaning-making. While their visual languages differ, their works collectively invite viewers to consider how personal histories, social structures, and cultural symbols intersect in shaping our present realities. This exhibition reflects Wunika Mukan Gallery’s dedication to fostering dialogues that are grounded in lived experience yet resonant across global contexts.
Kamila Rocha is a Brazilian artist based in São Paulo. Her connection with art, especially with painting, began in early adulthood and quickly became her main language of expression.
In this body of work, she allows her practice to become more personal and autobiographical.
While she continues to explore the same visual and political foundations that guide her work, these paintings are shaped more directly by her own experiences, memories, relationships, and emotional landscape.
This series is about translating lived moments into images. It is where personal history and collective identity meet on the surface of the canvas.
Themba Sibeko (b. 1994) is a Johannesburg based artist who was born and raised in Katlehong, Gauteng. He studied Analytical Chemistry at the University of Johannesburg where he explored the relationship between the bonding of atoms and molecules which would later inform his art practice.
This body of work explores themes of possibility, unity, and transformation, challenging the idea that “impossible” means unattainable. Instead, it presents it as something yet to be achieved, particularly in relation to the underrepresentation of Black ballet dancers at the highest levels. Through confident figures and shared moments of preparation, the works emphasize perseverance, collective purpose, and the importance of being “first” to open doors for future generations. Drawing from Matthew 18:20, the collection highlights unity and agreement as spiritual and practical forces that enable success. It also reflects the balance between performance and behind-the-scenes labor, showing how unseen dedication is just as vital as public triumph.
Edozie Anedu is a Nigerian-born artist currently based in London, United Kingdom, best known for his self-portrait figurative paintings. Working primarily with oil, acrylic, pastel, and collage, Anedu employs elemental forms in pursuit of simplicity and familiarity, often echoing the raw honesty of imperfect handwriting.
Through these paintings, he recalibrates with the natural cycle of life, a state of existence not measured by time. Edozie explores storytelling by moving back and forth between layers of painting just like notes perfumery, combining top, heart and base notes to convey a narrative. Like OUD creates a base layer for depth to accommodate all complexity of the several fragrances, these pieces are a landscape that brings together elements like fragrance in the mind where these complex narratives exist.
In the piece “there was dy and then there was dx”. In calculus dy/dx represents a rate of change in a given condition
In this work, he reflects on scarcity and abundance as a human condition like the unlimited supply of oxygen for all life forms by the earth and reflecting on everything else from that view point.