project
Sister City is an attempt to explore the possibility of parallel environments existing along the well traveled routes of our daily life, those bits of city that exist and function just slightly out of reach of our perceptual sensitivities, or just below the threshold of our ability to stop and pay attention. A series of peepholes containing images and fictitious scenes are hidden in walls throughout the neighborhood. A map will be provided to signal the work's location in the street and photographs as well as elements of three-dimensional installation from which the images are created will be presented inside the gallery.
profile
Swoon is an artist who, for the last four years, has created work that reflects as well as directly impacts New York City. Understanding that observing any situation can influence it, Swoon's work attempts to forge a two-way street between the effect that the urban environment has on its citizens and citizens roles in affecting change in their environments. Inspired by traditional graffiti and other artists who have used the city as raw material, she has been addressing city walls and subways as a space for creating publicly engaging work. Swoon has most recently been working with the collective Toyshop, creating interactive and performative work that focuses on this same question of how we can more actively live within our cities.
Exhibitions:
2002- NGBK, Berlin - Recipient of the Evolutionaere-Zellen grant given to individuals or groups who creatively shape their environment, exhibition held at Die Neue Gesellescheft fur Bildende Kunst.
2002- Urban-Art.info, Berlin - 'Swoon loves Solovei' Collaborative exhibition with Solovei of Toyshop collective.
2003- Jen Beckman, New York - 'Made in New York' Group exhibition.
2003- Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin - 'Project Backjumps' International exhibition of street art and hip hop culture.
2003 - The Living Room building, Miami - 'Miami Vices' group show of Miami and New York post-graffiti artists.
2004- Publico, Cinncinnatti - 'Good World' group exhibition working in conjunction with 'The Beautiful Losers' and the CAC.