Tarik Kiswanson
The genesis of Tarik Kiswanson’s work derives from heritage and tradition, using family heirlooms, collections of quotidian personal objects, and ethnographic museum collections in order to create, what he calls, ‘ambiguous objects’. Working with materials such as highly polished brass, aluminum, and steel, Kiswanson produces paradoxical sculptures that respond to their spatial environment and the observer’s proximity by quivering and vibrating. The fragility and subtlety of his work is evinced not only through the kinetic quality, but also through how it embodies a kind of “double vision”, which gestures aesthetically towards his Scandinavian and Arab heritage and opens up a multitude of interpretations.
Tarik Kiswanson (b. 1986, Sweden) lives and works in Paris and in 2014 he was awarded the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts - Prix Agnès B. Selected exhibitions include MUDAM, Luxembourg; Musée Gallo-romain de Saint-Romain-en-Gal as part of the Biennale de Lyon; Collège des Bernardins, Paris; Swedish Institute, Paris; Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris; Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain, Sérignan; Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne; Fondation Albert Gleizes, Berryer, France; Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris, and Espace 251 Nord, Liège. He is currently in residence at ISCP - International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, New York.
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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
