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.
This abstract artwork features a dynamic composition of intricate, overlapping lines and shapes in shades of gray, accentuated by bursts of dark, earthy tones. The overall impression is one of organic chaos, with a sense of movement and energy emanating from the tangled web of interconnected forms. The artist seems to have employed a minimalist aesthetic, relying on the powerful interplay of line and negative space to convey a sense of complexity and visual interest. The work likely aims to explore themes of interconnectedness, energy, and the inherent complexity of natural systems. ...
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. ...
