Tarik Kiswanson: Mirrorbody

Tarik Kiswanson was born in Halmstad, Sweden in 1986 where his parents immigrated to from Palestine. Notions of rootlessness, regeneration, and renewal are recurring themes in his oeuvre. His interdisciplinary work encompasses sculpture, writing, drawing, performance, sound and video works. It is through dialogue between these multifaceted practices that a distinctive conceptual language emerges.

Kiswanson’s exhibition Mirrorbody at Carré d’Art-Musée d’Art Contemporain in Nîmes assembles works that address questions of transformation, multiplication, disintegration, memory, and time—all central considerations in the artist’s ongoing exploration of the human condition. His multifaceted works oscillate between kaleidoscopic fragmentation and adopting more realistic and recognizable forms. The artist moves between different realms, figurative and abstract, in his ongoing inquiry into the body and its place in the world: its movement, its dissolution, its absence, its renewal.

Tarik Kiswanson studied at London’s Central Saint Martins School of Art, and the Beaux Arts in Paris. He has recently exhibited his work at the Pompidou Center, Ural Biennial and Performa Biennial in 2019, the Ricard Foundation in Paris (2018), Lafayette Anticipation (2018), the Gwangju Biennale in 2018 and Mudam in Luxembourg (2017). He will have several solo exhibitions in 2022 : at the M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp ; Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm and Hallands Konstmuseum in Halmstad.

This is his first major solo exhibition at a museum in France.

A monograph is published on the occasion of the exhibition featuring essays by Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Annie Godfrey Larmon, Jean-Marc Prevost, and Xiaoyu Weng. Published by the Carré d’Art-Distanz.