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Igshaan Adams, Ontbind, detail

Igshaan Adams2016

Social Fabric

Social Fabric
Cape Town, South Africa

Igshaan Adams is a Cape Town-based artist. His work is often hard to pin-down, as its subject matter is in-betweens. Formally, many of his pieces exist between textile and sculpture, while the work draws meaning from the push-and-pull of conflicting identities – Adams’ own experience as a liberal-minded Muslim raised in his Christian grandparents’ home, as a coloured South African and as queer– to explore the tensions that arise from a hybrid position in the world. This is detail of the work Ontbind

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  • Title: Igshaan Adams, Ontbind, detail
  • Creator: Igshaan Adams
  • Date Created: 2016
  • Location Created: Cape Town, South Africa
  • Provenance: South Africa
  • Fashion Show: Social Fabric journeys part 1
  • Type: photograph, of an artwork, detail
  • Photographer: Social Fabric
  • Original Source: Anna Stielau
  • Rights: Social Fabric
  • Medium: industrial rope, found string
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