We are delighted to share that Ibrahim Ahmed will be on display at ICA Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University with It Will Always Come Back to You, his first solo museum exhibition curated by ICA Executive Director Dominic Willsdon.
The first solo museum exhibition of Cairo-based artist Ibrahim Ahmed (b. 1984, Kuwait), It Will Always Come Back to You presents a thematic selection of his work from 2013 to 2020 in a variety of media, including primarily textile-based sculpture, painting, and photo collage. The exhibition also features a new large sculpture commissioned by the ICA.
Born in Kuwait, Ahmed spent his childhood between Bahrain and Egypt before moving to the US at the age of thirteen. In 2014, he relocated to Cairo, where he currently lives and works in the informal neighborhood of Ard El Lewa. Ahmed’s manipulations of material, especially textile, are informed by research into the histories and movements of peoples and objects. His works in mixed media, sculpture, and installation engage with subjects related to colonization, structures of power, cultural interactions, and fluid identity, generating discussion around ideas of the self and notions of authenticity within the parameters of the nation-state. Ahmed’s work has been included in major group exhibitions internationally, including at the Sharjah Art Museum, 4th International Biennial of Casablanca (2018), 13th edition of the Biennial of Dakar – Dak’Art (2018), 13th Havana Biennial (2019), and 12th edition of the Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography (2019-20).
Ibrahim Ahmed
It Will Always Come Back to You
Jul 23, 2021 – Nov 7, 2021
ICA - Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University
601 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220
more info at https://icavcu.org/exhibitions/ibrahim-ahmed-it-will-always-come-back/
