In Disgust, Fear and Hell,  Mwandla confronts the spiritual and psychological burden of living in a world that continuously violates women physically, emotionally, and symbolically. This body of work emerges as a direct, intimate response to the violence she witnesses both in South Africa and globally: a culture of harm that infiltrates the everyday, distorts identity, and corrodes the soul.

The title reflects the emotional and psychic landscape through which Mwandla moves. Disgust at the cruelty and systemic disregard for the feminine body. Fear of erasure, of violation, of becoming endlessly unseen. Hell as both a lived and inherited condition, where memory and present terror coexist.

These works are not statements of resolution but raw manifestations layered expressions of dread, anguish, and resistance. While painting remains central to her practice, Mwandla expands her visual vocabulary in this exhibition to include fabric and experimental materials. Fabric here becomes a metaphorical skin at once soft and scarring, protective and ruptured. It stands in for the body, the wound, the ghost evoking the sensory and emotional weight of trauma.

Her visual language is rooted in symbolic storytelling, personal mythology, and the logic of dreams. Throughout the exhibition, hybrid, mystical figures part spirit, part creature populate the canvases. These beings embody complex emotional states and serve as both self-portraits and collective avatars. Drawing from religious iconography, myth, and surrealist tradition, Mwandla creates liminal spaces where the sacred collides with the grotesque, and where transformation is ongoing but unresolved.

Disgust, Fear and Hell does not offer healing. Instead, it immerses the viewer in the rawness of survival. It poses urgent questions: What happens to the soul when the world becomes uninhabitable? And what can art hold when words no longer suffice? Through this work, Mwandla does not search for closure but rather exposes what healing must first endure.