Oakville Galleries, Oakville

Tarik Kiswanson | Prelude

03.02.–01.06.2024

Tarik Kiswanson—the winner of the 2023 Marcel Duchamp Prize—produces sculpture, writing, performance, drawing, sound, and video works. Notions of rootlessness, regeneration, and renewal are central themes in his practice. Always operating at the intersection of different cultural contexts, his various abstract works examine subjects related to memory, heritage, birth, loss, and belonging. His oeuvre can be seen as a cosmology of related conceptual families, each exploring variations on themes such as refraction, multiplication, disintegration, levitation, hybridity, and polyphony through their own distinct language.

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Installation Views

  • Tarik Kiswanson, Cradle, 2022. Exhibition view at Prelude, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, 2024
    Photo © Jimmy Limit

  • Tarik Kiswanson, Prelude, exhibition view at Oakville Galleries, Ontario, 2024
    Photo © Jimmy Limit

  • Tarik Kiswanson, Prelude, exhibition view at Oakville Galleries, Ontario, 2024
    Photo © Jimmy Limit

  • Tarik Kiswanson, Respite, 2020. Exhibition view at Prelude, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, 2024
    Photo © Jimmy Limit

  • Tarik Kiswanson, The Accident, 2023. Exhibition view at Prelude, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, 2024
    Photo © Jimmy Limit

  • Tarik Kiswanson, The Fall, 2020. Exhibition view at Prelude, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, 2024
    Photo © Jimmy Limit

  • Tarik Kiswanson, The Wait, 2023. Exhibition view at Prelude, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, 2024
    Photo © Jimmy Limit