Tarik Kiswanson
Tarik Kiswanson’s work encompasses sculpture, writing, performance, drawing, sound and video works. His fundamental question is ontological: it is inscribed in philosophical research into Being as being. Notions of rootlessness, regeneration, and renewal are recurring themes in his oeuvre. Born in Halmstad, Sweden in 1986 where his family exiled from Palestine, his artistic practice evinces an engagement with the poetics of métissage: a means of writing and surviving between multiple conditions and contexts. His various bodies of work can be understood as a cosmology of related conceptual families, each exploring variations on themes like refraction, multiplication, disintegration, levitation, hybridity, and polyphony through their own distinct language.
Tarik Kiswanson received his MFA from École National Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris (2014) and BFA from Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London (2010). He has recently presented his work at Centre Pompidou (2019), Ural Biennial (2019), Performa Biennial (2019) Lafayette Anticipations (2018), Fondation Ricard (2018) and the Gwangju Biennial (2018). His retrospective exhibition Mirrorbody is currently up at Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain accompanied by a monograph published by Distanz. His upcoming solo exhibitions include Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm, Hallands Konstmuseum and MMAG Foundation in Amman.
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Texts
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Louise Benson, Tarik Kiswanson on the Forgotten Age of Childhood, in: Elephant Magazine, September 10, 2018.
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Collège des Bernardins, Paris: Tarik Kiswanson, "Ongoing Reflection You, Me, So Many", with an interview by curator Gael Charbau, December 2016.
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Natalia Masewicz: Tarik Kiswanson Weaves Steel, Defies Genre at Carlier/Gebauer Berlin, in: BlouinArtInfo, April 12, 2016
Tarik Kiswanson, DUST, exhibition view at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, curated by Caroline Ferreira, 2019.
Tarik Kiswanson, DUST, exhibition view at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, curated by Caroline Ferreira, 2019.
Tarik Kiswanson, Out of place, DUST, exhibition view at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, curated by Caroline Ferreira, 2019.
Tarik Kiswanson, AS DEEP AS I COULD REMEMBER, AS FAR AS I COULD SEE, 2018
Exhibition view at Lafayette Anticipations, Fondation d'entreprise Galerie Lafayette, 2018.
Photo: Martin Argyroglo
Tarik Kiswanson, AS DEEP AS I COULD REMEMBER, AS FAR AS I COULD SEE, 2018
Exhibition view at Lafayette Anticipations, Fondation d'entreprise Galerie Lafayette, 2018.
Photo: Martin Argyroglo
Tarik Kiswanson, The other side of the lip, 12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, curated by Jean de Loisy and Sungwon Kim, 2018.
Tarik Kiswanson, The other side of the lip, 12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, curated by Jean de Loisy and Sungwon Kim, 2018.
Tarik Kiswanson, exhibition view Come, come, come of age. at Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, 2018
Photo: Aurelien Mole
Tarik Kiswanson, exhibition view Come, come, come of age. at Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, 2018
Photo: Aurelien Mole
Tarik Kiswanson, Birth, 2018, exhibition view Come, come, come of age. at Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, 2018
Photo: Aurelien Mole
Tarik Kiswanson, Birth, detail, 2018, exhibition view Come, come, come of age. at Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, 2018
Photo: Aurelien Mole
Tarik Kiswanson, Father Form, 2017
Steel, 425 x 87 x 87 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, Father Form, 2017
Steel, 415 x 95 x 95 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, Father Form, 2017
Steel, 425 x 97 x 97 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, The wait, 2017
brass welded with silverware and steel
158 x 40 x 40 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, The wait, 2017
brass welded with silverware and steel
128 x 40 x 40 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, Rite of the drifter, 2017
brass, 300 x 40 x 75 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, ... of ..., at...h, at..., in..., Stars fall heavy heavily heavenly (the weavers’ machines), 2016
Handwoven Stainless Steel, 268 x 210 x 13 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, ... of ..., at...h, at..., in..., Flower in the crannied wall (the weavers’ machines), 2016
Handwoven Stainless Steel, 261 x 228 x 11 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, ... of ..., at...h, at..., in..., 2016
Handwoven Stainless Steel, 292,5 x 253,7 x 14 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, ONGOING REFLECTION – You, Me, So Many, 2016
exhibition view at Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France
Tarik Kiswanson, ONGOING REFLECTION – You, Me, So Many, 2016
exhibition view at Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France
Photo: Vinciane Verguethen/Voyez-Vous’
Tarik Kiswanson, ONGOING REFLECTION – You, Me, So Many, 2016
exhibition view at Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France
Photo: Vinciane Verguethen/Voyez-Vous’
Tarik Kiswanson, ONGOING REFLECTION – You, Me, So Many, 2016
exhibition view at Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France
Photo: Vinciane Verguethen/Voyez-Vous’
Tarik Kiswanson, 1917, 2016
Handwoven Stainless Steel, 265 x 144 x 18 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, 1951, 2016
Handwoven Stainless Steel, 256 x 135 x 18 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, 1974, 2016
Handwoven Stainless Steel, 253 x 136 x 18 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, 2016, 2016
Handwoven Stainless Steel, 250 x 135 x 3 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, Volt, 2016
Handwooven Copper, 221,5 x 239,5 x 16,5 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, bird, 2016
Brass, 64,8 x 21,6 x 8 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, Shifter, 2016
brass, 275 x 25 x 25 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, Shifter, 2016
copper, 300 x 23,5 x 23,5 cm
Tarik Kiswanson, Shifter, 2015
highpolished brass welded with silver, 300 x 25 x 25 cm
