This year’s summer exhibition features three 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 work reflects the variety of the contemporary art scene while articulating the artists’ own personal experiences of place and time, to deepen our experience of the multitude of voices that makes up today’s society.
They all have a strong relationship to writing and text, emphasised by the exhibition title. 3 summers is also the title of a 2016 book by Canadian essayist and poet Lisa Robertson, describing how experience and memory are layered throughout generations. The three artists use formats such as text, drawing, sculpture or film to 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.
3 summers contains several new commissions related to Lunds konsthall:
Kiswanson’s Foresight combines two chairs from 1953, one by the celebrated Danish architect and furniture designer Finn Juhl and one, produced for Brazil’s immigration authority, by the manufacturer Móveis Cimo.
Moallim has used the gallery as her studio during the installation period, creating drawings that reference the architecture and the other artists’ stories.
Tan has recreated her work National Geographic (Epoch), originally a slide projection, as an installation of 40 framed images cut from her father’s collection of magazines.
