Curator: Lekha Hileman<\/p>\n
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is pleased to present in situ: Igshaan Adams. Unsettling Dust: The Body\u2019s Archive, the third chapter of the Museum\u2019s\u00a0in situ\u00a0series, a program that invites artists to create site-specific works in dialogue with the gallery\u2019s architecture. Conceived as a platform for ambitious projects by leading contemporary artists,\u00a0in situ\u00a0highlights practices that expand the possibilities of sculpture, installation, and multimedia. Each presentation engages directly with the Museum\u2019s distinctive gallery dedicated to the series, transforming it into environments where architecture and artistic imagination converge.<\/p>\n
Igshaan Adams (b. 1982, Cape Town) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work navigates the intersections of personal history and broader social structures. Raised in Bonteheuwel, a suburb shaped by the forced removals and spatial segregation of apartheid, Adams has long been attentive to how ideology is inscribed onto the body and the built environment alike. Working across weaving, sculpture, and installation, he employs materials such as rope, beads, wire, and found objects\u2014each carrying tactile and cultural associations\u2014to construct intricate surfaces that register the entanglement of race, religion, sexuality, and memory.<\/p>\n
Adams\u2019s early works often drew on found materials and the patterned linoleum floors of domestic interiors, translating these familiar geometries into intimate abstractions. Over time, his practice expanded into an engagement with so-called \u201cdesire lines\u201d\u2014paths formed by the repeated movement of bodies through space, often in quiet defiance of imposed routes. These works marked a shift toward understanding movement not only as trace, but as a collective, embodied negotiation of space and belonging.<\/p>\n
In recent years, Adams has extended this inquiry into movement as both process and form. His ongoing collaboration with Garage Dance Ensemble in O\u2019okiep, in South Africa\u2019s Northern Cape\u2014his maternal family\u2019s place of origin\u2014has opened a dialogue between weaving and dance. Through a series of workshops, dancers move across canvases laid over painted linoleum, generating what Adams describes as \u201cdance prints\u201d: layered monotypes that record gestures of contact, rhythm, and release. For the artist, such movement carries a reparative potential, a means of dislodging trauma held within the body and reconfiguring it through collective action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curator: Lekha Hileman The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is pleased to present in situ: Igshaan Adams. Unsettling Dust: The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-414104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}