The Rupture by Tarik Kiswanson
5 Oct – 30 NovIn a complex practice spanning sculpture, film, sound, drawing and poetry, Kiswanson articulates legacies of war, geographical displacement, and trauma from the position of a second-generation immigrant. His interdisciplinary artworks speak of intimate, personal experiences whilst simultaneously reverberating with shared collective histories of diasporic movement and terrible loss. The Rupture (2024) which gives the exhibition its title, is one in a family of works in which objects are stilled and fortified in cast resin.
- Image: Tarik Kiswanson, ‘The Rupture’ (2024). Resin, British imperial pen, black ink, 40 x 29 x 9 cm. Courtesy of the artist, carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid, and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg. Commissioned by The Common Guild with Portikus, Frankfurt. Photo: Jens Gerber.