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13 February - 16 April 2026
Marking Mahoney’s first fully-realised body of figurative oil-on-
canvas works, Pareidolia signals a bold expansion of the South African artist’s visual language, long-articulated through her sculptural forms.
Pareidolia, a new solo exhibition of oil paintings by multidisciplinary artist Justine Mahoney, will open at Southern Guild Cape Town on 12 Feburary 2026, just ahead of the 13th edition of the Investec Cape
Town Art Fair (19 – 22 February 2026).
Conceptually rooted in Posthumanist philosophy and Poststructuralist theory, Pareidolia emerges from a year-long period of ritual, research, and material enquiry. Mahoney’s phantasmagorical figures collapse the
hierarchical distinctions between human and non-human, between plant, animal, and organic life. Bodies entwine and intermingle, limbs morphing into vegetal and biomorphic configurations that echo the fluid entanglements which shape our world.
Pareidolia furthers Mahoney’s ongoing contemplation of what it means to be human. The exhibition invites viewers to consider the vulnerability, interdependence, and speculative possibilities of alternative modes of
being.
