Street/installation artist, Swoon, is admired worldwide. She has major works in MoMA, PS1, Tate Modern and at galleries such as Deitch Projects (NYC) and Gallerie L.J (Paris). Her larger than life woodblock prints and cut paper portraits can also be found on walls in various states of beautiful decay in cities around the world.
Her recent projects designing, building, and organizing fleets of rafts and most recently the “Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea”, a large-scale installation at Deitch Projects in New York City received broad attention, including a photo spread on the front page of the NY Times Arts section. Built with materials salvaged from demolished buildings in the New York City area, and powered by bio-fuel converted motors, Swoon’s boats are monuments to the dense urban ecologies that grow spontaneously from the needs of a culture responding to the constraints of its geography and the pressures of its time.
“I just wanted to bring something absurdly joyful”
- Swoon about the Swimming Cities
This year, Swoon’s plans are much, much bolder - her new floating installation “Swimming Cities of Serinissima” involves connected rafts that will sail the Adriatic Sea from Slovenia towards Venice in time for the Venice Biennale. These three sculptural rafts will bring music, performance, and a cabinet of wonders to Venice that will have been collected on the journey.
Continue reading to learn how you can own a piece by this iconic artist and how you can help Swoon make a future project a reality…
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