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Igshaan Adams: Kicking Dust, a curator’s introduction
In his first UK solo exhibition, Igshaan Adams created a single immersive environment which enables you to experience weaving in its many different forms.
The title of Adams’ show is rooted in Rieldans, an Indigenous dance of Adams’ Cape Town background, which would see the participants kick up clouds of dust. As Tarini Malik, Hayward Gallery curator, explains in this video, the notion of dust, and its symbolism, is evoked throughout the exhibition in the artist’s delicate sculptural works, which hang from the ceiling.
‘This surreal woven landscape that Igshaan has produced is centred around histories, and sociopolitical histories, of the apartheid and Cape Town.’
Tarini Malik, Hayward Gallery curator, on Igshaan Adams: Kicking Dust