Otomys is delighted to announce representation of Anico Mostert.
Anico Mostert (b.1995, Cape Town) is a South African artist living and working in Cape Town, whose work explores the subtle moments of everyday life. Her approach to making is versatile, allowing her practice to remain intuitive and evolve as a continuous process of learning and discovery.
Through her distinctive and expressive style, Mostert invites viewers to reflect on how the spaces we inhabit shape, and are shaped by, our sense of self. She is particularly concerned with the experiential qualities of space and belonging, exploring how ‘lived spaces’ become vessels for memory, emotion, and identity. Her elongated figures, often set in open landscapes or spilling from empty rooms, reveal the inner tensions of existence: the stretching and moulding of the self as it responds to its surroundings.
These internal transformations, usually invisible to others, are made visible in her paintings. The figures seem to move with emotion, their forms shaped as much by feeling as by space. Through intuitive colour and bold, expressive brushwork, Mostert captures the ongoing dialogue between inner experience and environment, articulating a deeply human sense of being-in-the-world.
November 5, 2025
