Tarik Kiswanson presents a multi-form installation of new work in the Great Hall. Forms of rootlessness, regeneration and renewal are combined in this project through poetic sculptural and architectural gestures, where we see post-war histories eliding with contemporaneous experience. Born in Halmstad, Sweden in 1986 where his family exiled from Palestine, Kiswanson’s practice has been described as evincing a poetics of métissage: a means of writing and surviving between multiple conditions and contexts.
His broad artistic practice acts 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.
Installation Views
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Tarik Kiswanson, The Wait, 2023, resin, fiberglass, paint, wooden chair, 143 x 52 cm, chair 80 x 50 x 50 cm
Exhibition view Tarik Kiswanson, Afterwards, Salzburger Kunstverein 2023. Photo © Rainer Iglar -
Tarik Kiswanson, Afterwards, exhibition view at Salzburger Kunstverein 2023. Photo © Rainer Iglar
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Exhibition view Tarik Kiswanson, Afterwards, Salzburger Kunstverein 2023. Photo © Rainer Iglar
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Tarik Kiswanson, Afterwards, exhibition view at Salzburger Kunstverein 2023. Photo © Rainer Iglar
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Tarik Kiswanson, Respite, 2020, resin, candle, 40 x 28 x 9 cm
Exhibition view Tarik Kiswanson, Afterwards, Salzburger Kunstverein 2023. Photo © Rainer Iglar -
Tarik Kiswanson, Afterwards, exhibition view at Salzburger Kunstverein 2023. Photo © Rainer Iglar