Reading and conversation with Tarik Kiswanson and Jesi Khadivi
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As part of the exhibition Come, come, come of age.
A reading and conversation with Tarik Kiswanson and
Jesi Khadivi.
The pursuit of closeness, of coming closer, permeates
the poetic logic of the artist Tarik Kiswanson’s writing: both in its structure
and in its exploration of the human condition. Whether through windows or
screens, the world that Kiswanson creates in his poetry is one in thrall to constant
paroxysms of expansion and contraction. A world so close that you could carry
it within your body, yet so vast that it can only be experienced through
connection, in communion with forces that at times seem to be working against
you. This tension, this borderline between the self and the other, history and
the future, even the borders that exist within an individual his or herself,
ripples through his writing.
On
April 17th, Kiswanson has read a selection of his poetry, which has been followed by a conversation with the exhibition’s curator Jesi Khadivi that touches upon the relation between the artist’s writing and artistic
practice.
