Solo show
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in situ: Igshaan Adams. Unsettling Dust: The Body's Archive
5 May 2026 — 1 Nov 2026 at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
· Bilbao
in situ: Igshaan Adams. Unsettling Dust: The Body's Archive is a solo exhibition by Cape Town-based artist Igshaan Adams. Working across weaving, rope, beading, and installation, Adams creates immersive environments that interrogate the intersections of race, religion, gender, and belonging.
Unsettling Dust: The Body's Archive positions the body as a repository of accumulated experience — a living archive shaped by ritual, labor, and the traces left by those who came before. The exhibition unfolds in direct dialogue with its host space, responding to the architecture and histories embedded within it.
Adams's practice draws on the spiritual and physical gestures of his Cape Flats upbringing, weaving together materials and memories into works that are at once intimate and monumental.
Unsettling Dust: The Body's Archive positions the body as a repository of accumulated experience — a living archive shaped by ritual, labor, and the traces left by those who came before. The exhibition unfolds in direct dialogue with its host space, responding to the architecture and histories embedded within it.
Adams's practice draws on the spiritual and physical gestures of his Cape Flats upbringing, weaving together materials and memories into works that are at once intimate and monumental.
About the artist
Igshaan Adams
1982
Igshaan Adams is a South African artist working on tapestries and textile-based sculptures, installations, and performance. His work has been included in the 59th Venice Biennale: The Milk of Dreams, in 2022; and the 2023 São Paulo Biennial: Choreographies of the Impossible.
About the artist →About the venue
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
· Bilbao
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao, Biscay, Spain. It is one of several museums affiliated to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists. It was inaugurated on 18…
