Igshaan Adams: Stukkinne Stories
23/01/2020 - 07/03/2020blank recently announced the opening of exhibitions by Igshaan Adams and Sabelo Mlangeni. Curated together, these new bodies of work focus on the interior, domestic lives of two households – one in Lagos and the other in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town.
Combining aspects of performance, weaving, sculpture and installation that draw upon his background, Igshaan Adams’s practice is an ongoing, personal investigation into identity and intersectionality. The quiet activism of Igshaan Adams work speaks to his experiences of racial, religious and sexual liminality. Igshaan Adams uses the material and formal iconographies of Islam and ‘coloured’ culture to develop a more equivocal, phenomenological approach towards these concerns and to offer a novel, affective view of cultural hybridity.
What Kalea of the Cape Left in This World (1848)
According to the inventory of the Orphan Chamber of The Cape of Good Hope*
One bed and accessories
One wardrobe
One ditto
One long and one short chest
Three paintings
A clock (defect)
Some kitchen tools
Three Tables
Seven assorted chairs
One bed and accessories
With the imprint of sound slumber
One wardrobe
Everything in its place
One ditto
Because sometimes you need more space
One long and one short chest
And the footsteps in-between
Three paintings
Glowing in the afternoon light
A clock (defect)
Op haar eie tyd
Some kitchen tools
To fill empty bellies
Three Tables
Plek vir almal by die tafel
Seven assorted chairs
For seven assorted friends
and their stukkende stories.
Yet all that remains is a piece of paper that records:
One bed and accessories
One wardrobe
One ditto
One long and one short chest
Three paintings
A clock (defect)
Some kitchen tools
Three Tables
Seven assorted chairs
Text by Saarah Jappie
