3 somrar/3 summers

This year’s summer exhibition at Lunds konsthall features three topical and accomplished artists with connections to Sweden: Tarik Kiswanson (born in Halmstad in 1986, lives in Paris), Fatima Moallim (born in Moscow in 1992, lives in Malmö) and Lisa Tan (born in Syracuse, New York, in 1973, lives in Stockholm).

Their different modes of artistic expression reflect the varied output of the contemporary art scene. Nevertheless, one unifying trait is how these artists’ personal experiences of place and time become articulated in their productions – perspectives that also deepen our understanding of the multitude of voices that constitutes society today.

Another unifying trait is their relationship to writing and text, emphasised by the exhibition title, ‘3 summers’. It is borrowed from a book from 2016 by Canadian essayist and poet Lisa Robertson, whose writing renders our inner time. To formulate and mediate such narratives the artists use formats such as text, drawing, sculpture or film. The works in the exhibition show how we are constantly moving between the present, the past and the future, and how what we experience as something close and subjective is also part of a larger cultural and geographical context.

The exhibition contains several new commissions related to Lunds konsthall. Kiswanson’s sculpture Foresight consists of a chair by Danish architect and furniture designer Finn Juhl – one of his achievements was to decorate the UN headquarters in New York – combined with a chair from the Brazilian manufacturer Móveis Cimo, produced for the country’s immigration authority. Both are from 1953. Moallim have used the gallery as her studio during the installation period, creating drawings referencing the architecture and the other artists’ stories. Tan has recreated her work National Geographic, originally a slide projection, as an installation of 40 framed images cut from her father’s collection of magazines.

The exhibition is also discussed in the latest issue of the Swedish journal Ordkonst. In addition, artist and poet Ingrid Furre (born in 1983, lives in Malmö and Stavanger) has been invited to host three writing exercises during the exhibition period, as part of the ’Visiting Artist’ project.

Curators: Laura Goldschmidt, Paula Luduşan Gibe, Åsa Nacking

Image. Lisa Tan, My Pictures of You, 2017. Video still. Courtesy the artist and Galleri Riis

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