Lunchtime Tour | Tarik Kiswanson: Prelude
Mar 19, 2024
Lunchtime Tour | Tarik Kiswanson: Prelude
Date: March 19, 2024, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore Road East Oakville.
Visit our winter exhibition in Gairloch Gardens and enjoy a free guided tour of Tarik Kiswanson’s Prelude led by Exhibitions and Collection Manager Zana Kozomora.
Tarik Kiswanson—the winner of the 2023 Marcel Duchamp Prize—produces sculpture, writing, performance, drawing, sound, and video works. Notions of rootlessness, regeneration, and renewal are central themes in his practice. Always operating at the intersection of different cultural contexts, his various abstract works examine subjects related to memory, heritage, birth, loss, and belonging. His oeuvre can be seen as a cosmology of related conceptual families, each exploring variations on themes such as refraction, multiplication, disintegration, levitation, hybridity, and polyphony through their own distinct language.
A legacy of displacement and transformation permeates Kiswanson’s works and is indispensable to both their form and the modes of sensing they generate. The artist’s Palestinian family left Jerusalem for North Africa—and then Jordan—before subsequently settling in Sweden, where he was born. Over the years, his artistic inquiry has retained an attachment to the intimate and personal, while simultaneously speaking to universal concerns relative to the human condition and to social and collective histories of rupture, loss, and regeneration.
This event is FREE, online registration required.
Learn more and register here.