Hedonic Adaptation: Structures of Survival and Repair places the steel sculptures of Edoardo Villa alongside new work by Tshepo Sizwe Phokojoe in an exhibition that considers the ways people live with inherited systems, histories and environments. While Villa’s sculptures draw on the visual language of modernism and industry, Phokojoe’s practice introduces materials and forms associated with shelter, mending and memory.
Presented as part of HEAT Winter Arts Festival 2026, the exhibition explores the relationship between permanence and vulnerability through steel and cloth, monument and shelter. Rather than looking for simple reversals of the past, it invites visitors to consider how familiar structures might be re-examined through care, repair and sustained attention.
The public opening takes place on Thursday 6 August from 4pm to 8pm. A public conversation, Steel, Cloth and the Work of Repair, follows on Saturday 8 August at 11am, with Tshepo Sizwe Phokojoe, Nkgopoleng Moloi and Andrew Lamprecht discussing the exhibition and its themes.
