User:Anna.zeze/Tarik Kiswanson

Tarik Kiswanson, was born on July 19th 1986 in Halmstad (Suède), is a suédois, français, jordanien et palestinien. He lives and works in Paris.

Background and education
His parents, natives from Jérusalem, exiled in Jordan then in Sweden at the beginning of the 1980s. Upon their arrival, their original name al-Kiswani is changed into Kiswanson. Tarik Kiswanson spent his childhood between Sweden and Jordan, where a major part of his family still resides today.

At 17 years old, he settled in London to study at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art. In 2010, he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and settled in Paris to carry on studying at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris. He graduated with a D.N.S.A.P. with honors of the ENSBA jury in 2014.

Work
His work encompassing sculpture, writing, performance, drawing, sound and video works, reveals an engagement with the poetics of métissage: a means of writing and surviving between multiple conditions and contexts. From Swedish to Arabic, English to French, Tarik Kiswanson examines questions of displacement and interstitial which are specifically linked with losses and gains in the second generation migration context.

Notions of rootlessness, regeneration, and renewal are central themes in his oeuvre. 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. The « poetics of relation » by Édouard Glissant has deeply influenced his work.

Exhibition catalogs

 * Nest, Hallands Konstmuseum, Mousse Publishing, 2022
 * Mirrorbody, Carré d’Art - Musée d’Art contemporain, Nîmes, DISTANZ, 2021

Poetry books

 * The Window, JBE Books, 2022
 * AS DEEP AS I COULD REMEMBER, AS FAR AS I COULD SEE, JBE Books, 2018

Solo exhibitions (selection)

 * Anamnesis, M HKA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium (2022)
 * Nest, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon (2022)
 * Nest, Hallands Konstmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden (2022)
 * Surging, carlier I gebauer, Berlin, Germany (2021)
 * Mirrorbody, Carré d'Art, Nîmes, France (2020)
 * Dust, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2019)
 * Vessels, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France (2019)
 * Come of age, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, France (2018)
 * Father Form, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany (2017)
 * Ongoing Reflection, Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France (2016) ,

Group exhibitions (selection)

 * Manifesto of fragility, 16e Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, France (2022)
 * Living In This Exquisite Corpse, Ambassade de France, Bern, Switzerland (2021)
 * In The Open, The Common Guild, Glasgow, United Kingdom (2021)
 * Hi-storytelling, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hambourg, Germany (2021)
 * Immortality, Ural biennial, Ekaterinburg, Russia (2019)
 * AS DEEP AS I COULD REMEMBER, AS FAR AS I COULD SEE, Performa 19 biennial, New York, USA (2019)
 * Tainted Love Villa Arson, Nice, France (2019)
 * Today will happen, Asia Culture Center, Biennale de Gwangju, South Korea / Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2018)
 * Flatlands II, MUDAM - Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (2017)
 * 60e Salon de Montrouge, France (2015)