carlier | gebauer, Madrid, is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of recent works by Tarik Kiswanson, opening Thursday, 12 September from 5-10 pm. This will be the artist’s third exhibition with the gallery and the first time his work is exhibited in Madrid. 

Tarik Kiswanson’s interdisciplinary practice encompasses sculpture, writing, performance, sound, and video. The exhibition assembles a selection of sculpture, sound, and textile wall-works that address questions of origin, transformation, memory, and loss—all central considerations in the artist’s ongoing exploration of the human condition, particularly as it relates to coming of age and the context of first-generation migration.

The works included in the exhibition adopt more realistic and easily recognizable forms than some of Kiswanson’s other bodies of work, however this “shift” is less a question of moving from abstraction towards figuration, and more of an extension of the artist’s ongoing artistic inquiry into the body and its place in the world: its movement, its dissolution, its absence, its renewal.