ICA Miami presents a major new commission by Igshaan Adams, opening tomorrow, Tuesday 2 December.

Lulu, Zanele, Zandile, Savannah is a monumental site-specific installation created for the ICA’s three-story stairwell, featuring four cascading tapestries and a group of the artist’s suspended “dust cloud” sculptures, inviting multiple vantage points as visitors move through the museum.

Drawing on a history of collective weaving, ornamental motifs from hybrid traditions, traditional beading, and the repurposing of everyday materials, the luminous tapestries are based on prints made by capturing the traces of a dancer's improvised movements across a canvas, with each tapestry bearing the name of the dancer who created the original print. The “dust clouds,” which Adams suspends in front of and around the tapestries, add a sculptural dimension to the work, alluding to both meteorological phenomena, and the effects of bodies dancing on bare ground. These point not only to the popular festivities that the artist grew up around in Cape Town, South Africa, but to the twirling dervishes of Sufism, a mystical wing of Islam that has long fascinated Adams.

Organised by Gean Moreno, Director, Art + Research Center at ICA Miami.

Igshaan Adams
Lulu, Zanele, Zandile, Savannah

2 December 2025–1 November 2026

Artist Talk and Brunch with Igshaan Adams at SoHo Beach House, Miami
Thursday 4 December 2025, 10am–12pm
Open to members at Culture Club level and above. RSVP essential.

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
61 NE 41st Street
Miami
FL 33137