Vela Projects is proud to present We Should all be Dead, Khanya Zibaya’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Through the multimedia works that form part of this exhibition, conceptual artist Zibaya offers an intervention against a world saturated by infrastructure decay, spiritual alienation, high costs of living, racial terror, and persistent ecological degradation.
Amidst all of these, Zibaya’s timely exhibition, which includes black and white conceptual photography, collage-making, and abstract painting, captures the often forgotten, ignored, and mundane aspects of life in the City and what defiant beauty might look like. The exhibition title is particularly striking, recognising “failure” as attributed to the political processes of racial slavery and colonialism: where the intended objective was to disappear those who were seen to be non-Human and as such inferior. And yet, something else during these histories, emerged: resilience.
The title calls for a pause, to take note of how our senses have been transformed by the histories of modernity. One of the key outcomes of such a pause is the recognition that “the price of being human is too high”, as Zibaya argues.
This show runs from the 4 December 2025 to the 10 January 2026.
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Vela Projects Presents We Should All Be Dead
Vela Projects is proud to present We Should all be Dead, Khanya Zibaya’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Through the multimedia works that form part of this exhibition, conceptual artist Zibaya offers an intervention against a world saturated by infrastructure decay, spiritual alienation, high costs of living, racial terror, and persistent ecological degradation.
Amidst all of these, Zibaya’s timely exhibition, which includes black and white conceptual photography, collage-making, and abstract painting, captures the often forgotten, ignored, and mundane aspects of life in the City and what defiant beauty might look like. The exhibition title is particularly striking, recognising “failure” as attributed to the political processes of racial slavery and colonialism: where the intended objective was to disappear those who were seen to be non-Human and as such inferior. And yet, something else during these histories, emerged: resilience.
The title calls for a pause, to take note of how our senses have been transformed by the histories of modernity. One of the key outcomes of such a pause is the recognition that “the price of being human is too high”, as Zibaya argues.
This show runs from the 4 December 2025 to the 10 January 2026.
