A multimedia meditation on time, memory and cultural identity.
Published on the occasion of Nest, his exhibition at Hallands Konstmuseum, this volume reflects the diversity of Tarik Kiswanson's practice and deep engagement with the poetics of mé́tissage: a means of writing and surviving between multiple conditions and contexts.
Palestinian Swedish artist Tarik Kiswanson (born 1986 in Halmstad, Sweden) explores rootlessness, regeneration, and renewal in a body of work that encompasses sculpture, writing, performance, drawing, sound, and video art. His work, which he describes as "the border, the window, between the iris and the world outside," offers a cosmology of related conceptual families, each exploring themes like refraction, disintegration, levitation, hybridity, and polyphony through its own distinct language. Kiswanson's investigations of displacement and interstitiality specifically relate to what is lost and what is gained among first-generation migrants.
Tarik Kiswanson won the Marcel-Duchamp Prize 2023.
