Provenance

blank projects, Cape Town, 30 November 2018.

Private Collection.

Notes

“Being in Adams’ studio is like inhabiting a woven warehouse of worship. He constructively plays with his multitude of materials that cover and climb every corner of the space until he has the clarity of purpose to guide his team of weavers to enter the process of making. Half-made monuments of wire, beads, fibre and tassels punctuate the layered landscape of prayer mats, old tapyt (vinyl flooring), rugs and wall hangings. The repetition of movement and sound, which that production makes, is like the familiar rhythm of the chanting of the dhikr (repetitive utterances of short sentences glorifying God). The process of intricately interlacing strands of thread is a meditative process that teaches patience and trust; trust in the process.”

Ilhaam Behardien