{"id":25161,"date":"2022-11-03T10:05:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T09:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonnierskonsthall.se\/?post_type=bonnier_exhibition&p=25161"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:09:10","slug":"tarik-kiswanson","status":"publish","type":"bonnier_exhibition","link":"https:\/\/bonnierskonsthall.se\/en\/utstallning\/tarik-kiswanson\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarik Kiswanson \/ Becoming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Tarik Kiswanson \/ Becoming<\/h2>\n\n\n

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Bonniers Konsthall is proud to present the artist Tarik Kiswanson\u2019s largest solo exhibition in Sweden to date. In the last few years, Kiswanson has emerged as a seminal voice on the international art scene. In January 2023 he was nominated for the prestigious French Marcel Duchamp Prize. Despite his international presence, Kiswanson\u2019s art has not been acknowledged here in Sweden until recently.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibition Becoming<\/em> at Bonniers Konsthall presents Tarik Kiswanson\u2019s exceptionally multidimensional practice, which employs sculpture, writing, drawing, performance, and video to explore subjects relating to memory, heritage, time and belonging. Notions of rootlessness, regeneration and renewal form the core of his art, subjects that he constantly comes back to regardless of expressive means. A central theme in the exhibition, which features several new works, is the idea of levitation, which he explores as a psychological state of mind and as a physical phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Kiswanson comes from a Palestinian family, which in exile from Jerusalem fled via North Africa to Jordan before ending up in Halmstad in the early 1980s, where he was born in 1986. At the immigration office, the family name Al Kiswani was transformed to the more Swedish-sounding Kiswanson.<\/p>\n

My identity has been defined by several cultures, my abstract works stem from my own condition as a second-generation immigrant, shaped in the aftermath of displacement. Throughout my life, I have used sculpture and writing to explore transitory and interstitial states of the human condition.<\/em> \u2013 Tarik Kiswanson<\/p>\n

The philosopher \u00c9douard Glissant\u2019s ideas on identity as constructed relationally, which are expressed in his essay Poetics of Relation<\/em> (Po\u00e9tique de la relation<\/em>, 1990), have had a profound influence on Kiswanson\u2019s work. Glissant neither suppresses nor seeks reconciliation with a complex and multifaceted history but approaches it as a distinct condition from which we can gather the strength to move forward. The artist often reflects on the fragmented identities of the diaspora, examining what is lost and acquired intergenerationally through displacement and migration.<\/p>\n\n