Palestinian-Swedish artist Tarik Kiswanson was selected among the four finalists, three of them of Arab origin, for the prestigious French art prize Marcel Duchamp.
The Association for the International Diffusion of French Art (ADIAF) unveiled last week the names of the four artists running for the 23rd edition of Prix Marcel Duchamp: Tarik Kiswanson, Bouchra Khalili, Massinissa Selmani, and Bertille Bak after a long and rigorous process that began 10 months ago.
The finalists will be invited for a three-month exhibition at Centre Pompidou, the opening of which will take place on October 2, and the winner, who will get a prize of €35,000, will be announced on October 16 by an international jury.
Tarik Kiswanson was born in 1986 in Halmstad, Sweden, to Palestinian parents from the Kiswani family who immigrated to Sweden in the early 1980s. Visual artist and poet, he lives and works in Paris, France, and Amman, Jordan. His work encompasses 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 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.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency