memory, copper and aluminium wire, metal, stone and wooden beads, metal charms, found wire structures, found metal objects, thread, resin spray and automotive sprayPublic Gallery
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.
The artwork showcases a striking abstract composition featuring an intricate web of wire-like structures and organic, amorphous shapes. The predominant colors are dark, earthy tones of brown, black, and purple, creating a moody and dynamic visual effect. The overall arrangement suggests a sense of energy and movement, with the wire elements seemingly bursting forth from a central point. The artist has employed a distinctive technique, combining various materials and textures to craft an evocative and thought-provoking sculptural installation that invites the viewer to ponder its deeper symbolic or conceptual underpinnings. ...
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. ...
