Kapwani Kiwanga

White and gray curtain in a wavy shape as a part of Art installation in Tramway as part of Glasgow International 2018.as a part of art installation in Tramway as part of Glasgow International 2018.

Brown and white curtains in a wavy shape as a part of Art installation in Tramway as part of Glasgow International 2018.

In front of a panel of black and white stripped cloth with vertical lines there is a cloth of black and purple to white gradient lines that go horizontally, these are thicker than the background vertical lines. In front of the cloth there is a piece of grey rock that is smoothed into an uneven quadrilateral. It is held by a string-like cloth with black and white horizontal lines stapled to the canvas. This is part of an art installation in Tramway as part of Glasgow International 2018.

There is a cloth of black and white to red gradient lines that go vertically. In front there is a white and black horizontally stripped cloth holding a rectangular grey rock as part of Art installation in Tramway as part of Glasgow International 2018.

Tramway

The continent of Europe is moving towards Africa at the rate of approximately 2cm per year – eventually it will slide underneath entirely. Paris-based Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga took this fact as a starting point for a multi-faceted installation at Tramway. Through new sculptural works Kiwanga suggested speculative fictions that stretch through a perspective of deep geological time.

The placement of curtains would suggest the meeting of tectonic planes, whilst additional elements incorporating rocks and matter would further probe the thematic currents underlying the work. Kiwanga conceived the exhibition as a narrative ordered in three acts occupying the space. In this way the artworks became protagonists that operated as tectonic plates, independent but moving along one another – pushing closer or pulling away.

Commissioned by Glasgow International.

Supported by Canada House, Institut Français Fluxus Programme, The Henry Moore Foundation and Fyfe Glenrock.

Soft Measures

Tramway