13.2.24 - Igshaan Adams at ICA Boston
Igshaan Adams’s Lynloop is unveiled today as the latest ICA Boston Art Wall commission, 13 February 2024–15 February 2025.
Adams’s multidisciplinary practice, combining tapestry weaving, sculpture and installation, explores the interconnectedness of the artist’s spirituality, familial histories, and local community narratives as rooted in his South African heritage. Created from tactile materials including beads, rope, chain, and mohair, the work is based on aerial images of intersecting footpaths near Adams’s childhood home in the township of Bonteheuwel, Cape Town. These “desire lines”—unplanned paths created over time that fall outside of sanctioned walkways—act as a symbol of transgression in the face of fixed boundaries, especially in the context of apartheid.
Organised by Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs.
Igshaan Adams
Lynloop
13 February 2024–15 February 2025
Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall
Institute of Contemporary Arts / Boston
25 Harbor Shore Drive
Boston
MA 02210 Further information
Adams’s multidisciplinary practice, combining tapestry weaving, sculpture and installation, explores the interconnectedness of the artist’s spirituality, familial histories, and local community narratives as rooted in his South African heritage. Created from tactile materials including beads, rope, chain, and mohair, the work is based on aerial images of intersecting footpaths near Adams’s childhood home in the township of Bonteheuwel, Cape Town. These “desire lines”—unplanned paths created over time that fall outside of sanctioned walkways—act as a symbol of transgression in the face of fixed boundaries, especially in the context of apartheid.
Organised by Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs.
Igshaan Adams
Lynloop
13 February 2024–15 February 2025
Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall
Institute of Contemporary Arts / Boston
25 Harbor Shore Drive
Boston
MA 02210 Further information