Igshaan Adams: Desire Lines
Opening: Friday, Apr 1, 2022 12 – 12 pmSunday, Apr 2, 2023 – Aug 1, 2022
111 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60603
Igshaan Adams: Desire Lines
Apr 2–Aug 1, 2022
Member preview: Apr 1, 2022
About
At the heart of Igshaan Adams’s expansive weaving practice lies a question that can be applied to the relationship we have with others as well as with ourselves: “How would you treat someone differently if you knew everything about them? Or nothing?”
In his tapestries and textile installations, Adams engages with the gaps—the information that is seemingly absent, overlooked, or rendered invisible in the spaces we inhabit individually and collectively. Through the beads, shells, glass, rope, wire, and found objects he uses to compose his weavings, Adams highlights the material aspects of lived spaces along with the personal stories held within them.
Al-Muhyee (“The Giver of Life”), 2020
Igshaan Adams. Courtesy of blank projects, Cape Town. © Igshaan Adams