Emerging artist Yonela Makoba hails from the Eastern Cape in South Africa. The artist’s background directly influences their work, as they explain, “I reference class, Xhosa culture, the divide between urban and rural… In many ways, it’s because of my upbringing that I’m exploring what it means to be wiped clean of labels and the things that have hindered me”. 2019 saw Makoba's first solo exhibition, titled “Kwantlandlolo: Tangerine Prays for Tabula Rasa”. The artist works through ideas of identity and gender, and dreams of a world that functions as a blank slate, void of imposed labels or categories.