Igshaan Adams

Igshaan Adams

BornNationalityBased In
1982South AfricanN/A
Biography

Igshaan Adams’s practice coalesces performance, weaving, sculpture and installation. Born in Bonteheuwel, a township in Cape Town, South Africa, Adams draws upon his background to contest racial, sexual and religious boundaries. This intersectional topography remains visible throughout his practice and serves as a palimpsest upon which traces of personal histories are inscribed and reinscribed. He explains; “I’m interested in the personal stories recorded on the surface. What is recorded is not necessarily always a factual account but can be what is imagined - a combination of myth-making and meaning-making”. Adams approaches materiality through his own subjectivity. Often, cultural and religious references are used in conjunction with surfaces that have always been present throughout his life; thread, beads, wire, linoleum, cotton twine, fabric. His interest in the material oscillates between the intuitive process of handling different substances as well as a formal inquiry into how various materials behave in different contexts and how they transfigure or evolve depending. Likening the material’s potential for evolution to his own potential for evolution, Adams is engaged in broadening his ideas of selfhood in an ongoing process of covering and uncovering, doing and undoing. ...

Selected Artworks
Bontheuwel / Epping
Igshaan AdamsBontheuwel / Epping, 2021
1170 x 325 x 495cm
Vanguard
Igshaan AdamsVanguard, 2021
246 x 283cm
Zulekha
Igshaan AdamsZulekha, 2019
280 x 300cm
Heideveld
Igshaan AdamsHeideveld, 2021
240 x 360cm
Langa
Igshaan AdamsLanga, 2021
237 x 300cm
69
Igshaan Adams69, 2013
238 x 135 x 138cm
Kruispad
Igshaan AdamsKruispad, 2021
270 x 190cm
Weiveld (ii)
Duisterent I
Duisterent II
Igshaan AdamsDuisterent II, 2023
70 x 60 x 60cm
Duisterent I
Maureen, Roy
Holy terrain
Overflow
Igshaan AdamsOverflow, 2024
260 x 372cm
Pit
Igshaan AdamsPit, 2024
229 x 297cm
Dimming lustre
Barrier
Igshaan AdamsBarrier, 2024
266 x 277cm
Dark comfort (i)
Dark comfort (ii)
Dark resonance (i)
Dark resonance (ii)
Dark resonance (iv)
Psycho trash (i)
Igshaan AdamsPsycho trash (i), 2024
150 x 120 x 106cm
Psycho trash (ii)
Igshaan AdamsPsycho trash (ii), 2024
125 x 140 x 105cm
Psycho trash (iii)
Psycho trash (iv)
Igshaan AdamsPsycho trash (iv), 2024
100 x 100 x 125cm
Psycho trash (vii)
Igshaan AdamsPsycho trash (vii), 2024
120 x 130 x 140cm
Psycho trash (viii)
Psycho trash (ix)
Psycho trash (xi)
Igshaan AdamsPsycho trash (xi), 2024
110 x 110 x 110cm
Untitled
Igshaan AdamsUntitled, 2021
86.9 x 86.1 x 1.5cm
Byron
Igshaan AdamsByron, 2024
264 x 180cm
Georgia, Dustin
Dustin, Georgia
Biennals
35ª Bienal de São Paulo 2023 - São Paulo
Venice Biennial2022 - Venice
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