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Born in 1982 in Cape Town, South Africa, Igshaan Adams’s cross- disciplinary practice combines performance, weaving, sculpture and installation in anongoing investigation of his own identity. The quiet activism of Adams’s work speaks to his experiences of racial, religious and sexual liminality, and he uses the material and formal iconographies of Islam and South African mixed race culture to develop a more equivocal, phenomenological approach towards these concerns. Adams states:
“I am concerned with my two environments: the internal and the external; and the constant exchange of information between the two. As I project myself onto the world, so too do I internalize the world’s projections onto me. Initially I grappled with deconstructing my hybrid identity, focusing on my multicultural, religious and sexual identitiesin relation to the domestic and political environments in which they were formed, hoping to understanding the conflict I was experiencing. My focus has since shifted to wanting to know more about the self from a multidimensional, universal and mystical position. Doing and undoing, pushing and pulling, employing restraint while at the same time being open to discovering new elements of beauty through playful experimentation, all of this allows me as the artist to insert my personal inquiry into the work. My aim has always been to question and challenge boundaries in a sensitive way.” (Adams, 2017)