7 June – 31 August 2025
Curators: Paula Luduşan Gibe, Laura Goldschmidt, Åsa Nacking
Lunds konsthall
Lund, Sweden
Artists
Tarik Kiswanson, Fatima Moallim, Lisa Tan
The exhibition ‘3 Summers’ brings together three renowned artists – Tarik Kiswanson, Fatima Moallim and Lisa Tan – whose family background and upbringing were shaped by movements to and from Sweden, geographically as well as culturally. In their practices, experience, knowledge and memories, accumulated across generations, become key conduits of meaning determining their artistic thinking and self-expression, their understanding of themselves and their surroundings over time.
Time can be measured in years, days or seconds, but our experience of time is also subjective and conditioned by the cultural and philosophical context. The French philosopher Henri Bergson uses the concept of durée (duration) to describe an experiential internal understanding of time. To him, durée is distinct from measurable, objective and scientific time. He regards it as a continuous flow, in which consciousness encounters time as a live dynamic process rather than as a series of discrete moments.
The three artists of the exhibition bring together different kinds of locations: both physical and mental, in both space and time. While their modes of expression range from drawing and sculpture to film, they are united by a shared concern for language and text. By combining systems of writing and imaging in her works, Fatima Moallim creates visual space for language. Lisa Tan approaches universal concerns through literary and historical references, but always from a personal point of departure. His work titles alone make us understand that Tarik Kiswanson is an artist who writes.
The exhibition title is borrowed from Canadian novelist and poet Lisa Robertson, whose writing renders our inner time more concrete. In the book 3 Summers she moves playfully between present, past and future, articulating a dynamic understanding of time, the notion that time isn’t linear but something more fluid and subjective.
Tarik Kiswanson was born in Halmstad and grew up there. His Palestinian parents come from Jerusalem. As an adult he first spent ten years in London before moving to Paris, where he has lived for 15 years. Fatima Moallim was born in Moscow to Somali parents and grew up in Växjö before moving to Stockholm as an adult. Today she lives in Malmö. Lisa Tan was born in Syracuse, New York, and grew up in El Paso, Texas, in a family from India. As an adult she lived for many years in both Los Angeles and New York, and then Stockholm, where she has been working for several years.
Photo credit: Lisa Tan, My Pictures of You, 2017. Video still. Courtesy the artist and Galleri Riis