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New Home at
5 Florence Street
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Summer 2024
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5 Florence Street, Glasgow, G5 0YX
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This summer, The Common Guild is re-locating to our new long-term home in the former school building at 5 Florence Street, where we will have a physically accessible office, library and event space, and exciting space for exhibitions.
Following two previous temporary exhibitions in the building with Sharon Hayes in 2021, and Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme in 2022, The Common Guild will be the lead tenant and cultural partner in the building.
5 Florence Street is currently being developed into a space for artists’ studios and creative businesses by Assumption Studios. We are very grateful for their generous support in making this possible.
We will complete our move over the summer, opening our first exhibition in the new space, with Tarik Kiswanson, on 5th October 2024.
More details here.
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Tarik Kiswanson –
'The Rupture'
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5 October – 30 November 2024
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5 Florence Street, Glasgow, G5 0YX
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Tarik Kiswanson, 'The Rupture' is the first exhibition in the UK by the Paris-based artist and winner of the 2023 Prix Marcel Duchamp.
‘The Rupture’ is a significant exhibition of newly commissioned and recently conceived artworks presenting Kiswanson's complex, interdisciplinary practice spanning sculpture, film, sound, drawing and poetry. His work articulates legacies of war, geographical displacement, and trauma from the position of a second-generation immigrant growing up in a psychologically liminal state. Rebirth, regeneration and a sense of becoming are leitmotifs of Kiswanson’s poetic material vocabulary.
For Kiswanson, objects are suffused with history, memory and profound significance. Eponymous sculpture ‘The Rupture’ (2024) has at its centre a gold-plated Onoto fountainpen: a symbol of imperialism, the British ruling classes, and the same pen favoured by Winston Churchill in the signing of the Mandate for Palestine and Transjordan Memorandum in 1922, amongst other colonial treaties that would create continuous conflict and division.
Kiswanson is “profoundly interested in what constitutes life, what it essentially means to exist”, and across the exhibition, artworks can be understood as articulating a series of ruptures through the temporal space of history and in the course of an individual life.
'The Rupture' is supported by Fluxus Art Projects.
More details here.
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