“Bangkok” by Swoon in a private collection on french tv
La Maison France 5, 20 juillet 2017
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SWOON: 2002-2017, first retrospective at CAC Cincinnati in September 2017
The Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati announces Swoon’s early career retrospective for this September :
Swoon
September 22, 2017 – February 25, 2018
Organized by the Contemporary Arts Center; Curated by Steven Matijcio
The CAC is organizing the first major survey of era-defining artist Caledonia Curry – better known as Swoon. Swoon is a pioneering social champion in a field traditionally dominated by men, machismo and activities deemed illegal; she has overcome every barrier to re-define what “street art” means today. This exhibition showcases multiple dimensions of Curry’s multi-faceted practice, including a new site-specific installation, re-stagings of past landmark projects and a survey of her socially-driven work in countries like Haiti and Kenya.
By humble means of drawing, printmaking, wheatpaste and cut paper, Curry has given life to a burgeoning family of faces and figures who take on extraordinary presence when placed in public space. To bring people closer, she explains, “I make [the figures] human-scale and close to the ground, so you have a one-on-one experience. I call them vessels of empathy. ” Curry congregates equally colorful communities of real life characters when collectively building music houses in New Orleans, earthbag community centers in Haiti, and rafts out of NYC garbage that become surreal vessels floating down the Grand Canal in Venice.
To expand the impact of Swoon’s time in Cincinnati, the CAC initiated her participation in the Cincinnati Ballet’s 2017 New Works performance which will take place April 20-30. In collaboration with renowned choreographer Jennifer Archibald, Curry will design a newly created stage set that will subsequently become part of the CAC exhibition.
Citybeat announces Swoon’s next major art event : the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinatti will open a museum survey of her career entitled “SWOON: 2002-2017”, opening Sept. 22 and up through Feb. 25, 2018
One of the foremost practitioners of modern street art — a female artist known as “Swoon” — has two upcoming projects in Cincinnati.
The artist “Swoon” with her set for Cincinnati Ballet’s New WorksPHOTO: HAILEY BOLLINGER
As street art becomes so accepted and popular a genre that its most outstanding practitioners have developed international followings, one of the foremost — a female artist known as “Swoon” — has two upcoming projects in Cincinnati.
The first is a collaboration with choreographer Jennifer Archibald for the Cincinnati Ballet’s The Kaplan New Works Series, which opens Thursday at the Aronoff Center’s Jarson-Kaplan Theater and continues through April 30. All four of the pieces in the program are by women choreographers.
The second project is a major art event — the Contemporary Arts Center says it will open a museum survey of her career to start the upcoming exhibition season. Called SWOON: 2002-2017, it opens Sept. 22 and will be up through Feb. 25, 2018.
Born Caledonia Curry, Swoon began wheatpasting life-size woodblock-printed and hand-painted portraits of friends and family onto walls in New York City in 1999, when she was just a college student studying art at Pratt Institute. Her work quickly gained the attention of pedestrians and gallerists alike.
“First and foremost I am a drawer of portraits,” she says.
Using humble materials, temporary approaches and by “getting up” enough work on the street, by the mid-2000s Swoon was becoming familiar enough that she had already sold pieces to New York’s Museum of Modern Art and had a solo show at Deitch Projects gallery — all this merely a few years out of college.
In addition to more traditional gallery shows, Swoon has also initiated long-term site-specific artistic endeavors in places like Haiti, New Orleans and Braddock, Pa., which use art as a way to galvanize communities.
Like Swoon, choreographer Archibald has worked widely. She’s the founder and artistic director of New York City’s Arch Dance Company, and she’s just been named resident choreographer for Cincinnati Ballet’s upcoming season.
Archibald says via email that she and Swoon met in New York last summer. They’ve been collaborating virtually ever since, sending each other photos and videos and tossing ideas and materials back and forth.
For Archibald’s New Works piece, entitled “Never.Nest,” Swoon repurposed elements from a raft that she floated on the Adriatic Sea. The seaworthy craft was made from discarded furniture and architectural objects that the artist and her crew had gathered from abandoned warehouses and garbage piles along the coast around Slovenia.
The conceptual framework of the collaborative dance piece draws on that. “(It’s about) climate change and coastal cities and our relationship to nature in this moment,” Swoon says. “And (also) our need to viscerally process what’s happening.”
The technical challenges for this particular project are specific to the theater. Grappling with issues of scale, time and mobility requires work.
“It can be fun creative problem-solving,” Swoon says. “Or maddening. Or both.”
“Usually both,” she adds, with a laugh.
The first time Swoon came to Cincinnati was in 2004 for the trendsetting Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture exhibition at the CAC. Her work was actually exhibited at now-shuttered Publico gallery, one of several satellite locations around the city that hosted the various participating street artists.
It should come as no surprise then that the CAC was interested in bringing Swoon back for a solo show of her work. There is already a committed base of supporters for this kind of art, and what Swoon does with her intricate portraits and installation work is different than other street artists.
The survey of her works that opens in September at the CAC will offer her at chance to reflect on her career. She also has plans to go “off-radar” for at least a year after the survey show. Then, when it comes time to tackle an installation again, Swoon says she will be looking for the next big challenge.
“I kind of know what I’m doing and that’s just not good for an artist,” she says, “or else you’re not living a truly creative life.”
Recap of Swoon in Hong Kong, in the streets & Art Central, by Brooklyn Street Art
SWOON ON THE STREETS, IN THE FAIRS, AND BEYOND IN HONG KONG
Posted on March 28, 2017
Brooklyn Street Artist Swoon has traveled to hot, hopping Hong Kong recently to create the façade for the tramline with HKwalls, a program of customization for the historic public transportation cars in the city center that has included also Portuguese Street Artist Vhils with HOCA, and during Art Basel this year a site specific tram from Hong Kong artist Kingsley Ng.
Swoon. Hong Kong. March 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Not surprisingly, as is the custom of Street Artists everywhere, the wheat-pasting romantic portraitist introduced a number of her friends to the streets of the Incense Harbor city among its myriad winding cobblestones, wending staircases, and wiley alleyways.
The experience of a local is perhaps to discover this new entity on a wall suddenly, a figure so full of presence and personality as if it may speak to you. As an international traveler the experience may be to be greeted in a foreign land by a friendly familiar face.
Swoon. Detail. Hong Kong. March 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
In our case, that same face greeted us again in the entirely scrubbed austerity of the white cube of a Parisian art dealer, nested as it was among a honeycomb of other white boxed and illuminated beneath a vast white canvas on a pier by the Ferris Wheel.
We meditated lightly on this topic of the gallery on the street – commercial gallery – museum gallery continuum during our Images of the Week wrap up this week. It is an unusual position that Street Artists’ occupy and one that introduces topics around speech, advertising, commercialism, and traditional graffiti practices of getting up and marking one’s name.
Swoon. Hong Kong. March 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
And now we muddy those waters once again, by telling you of a BSA-curated show of new prints that will benefit the Heliotrope Foundation when it debuts next week in New York. Swoon’s Heliotrope non-profit is literally building community, homes, shelter, and helping people become teachers in Haiti. (more at end of posting)
Swoon. Hong Kong. March 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Swoon. Hong Kong. March 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Swoon. This piece titled “Sonia” was destroyed in the process of bringing down a structure from the wall. Hong Kong. March 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Swoon. But we found one intact and for sale at the Art Central Art Fair in Hong Kong. March 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Swoon. Adeline the owner of Parisian Galerie L J at Art Central Art Fair is shown talking to a potential buyer not in the photo. Hong Kong. March 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
By donating our efforts along with the donated talents of 6 world-renowned Street Artists; Miss Van, Above, Li-Hill, Case Maclaim, Faith XLVII, and Icy & Sot, we encourage others to contribute to Heliotrope and to buy a custom new print from these artists. We’re proud to curate for this project, to be associated with these great artists, and to provide a platform for everyone to make these connections.
Additionally, Swoon herself will release new drawings from Haiti.
SWOON X Heliotrope X BSA : A Benefit for Heliotrope Foundation
curated by Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo, co-founders of BSA
Opening Event: Thursday, April 6 from 6-9pm.
Beats and refreshments provided.
Location: 88 ½ Seventh Avenue (between 15th & 16th St.)
in Chelsea, New York
Pop-Up Exhibit runs April 7-9 from 11am – 6pm daily
Swoon @Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden
The Skissernas Museum in Lund, near Malmö in Sweden, has reopened in January 2017 its collection of sketches and preparatory drawings – the largest in the world. On this occasion the museum has invited SWOON for a solo exhibition and site-specific project.
SWOON’s exhibition, “Haven”, covers 3 floors of the museum with installations, as well as the courtyard with a site-specific monumental pasteup – her largest as of today. This is her first major exhibition in a museum in Sweden.
From January 28th thru August 13th 2017
Swoon in the collection of MUCA in Munich
MUCA (Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art) has just opened in Munich, with 2 pieces by Swoon in the permanent collection, one of which is currently shown in the inaugural exhibition.
Picture ©Arnaud Oliveux
Swoon dans DADA magazine
Une page est consacrée au travail de Swoon “la fée du street art” dans la revue pour enfants DADA, numéro spécial street art, novembre 2016.
Disponible en librairies (7,90€).
Andrew Schoultz & Swoon in Urban Dawn II, Beyrouth
Both Andrew Schoultz and Swoon Studio are contributing to Urban Dawn II in Beyrouth in the related exhibition “Street Arts Street Smarts” thru November 13th curated by Rasmus Ejaas Fischer and art platform curator19.90. Andrew Schoultz is also currently painting a large wall in the city. Pictures soon !
Full list of artists : ALEX DIAMOND / ALEX SASTOQUE / ANTON SAVITSKY / ANDREW SCHOULTZ / ASHEKMAN / BASE23 / CAMILLE ADRA / CHAD MUSKA / СHAD THE MAD / DALEK / DANNO / DAN WITZ / DEM189 / ECB / ELLE / EL MAC / EPS / ETHOS / EXIST / FINOK / FRANS SMIT / GILF / GRINO / HARIF GUZMAN / ICY&SOT / JAV DEMSKY / JOHN NEWSOM / LORO VERZ / M3ALIM / MIKAEL TAKÁСS/ MORTEN ANDERSEN / NÆBLERØD / NOOTK / OLEK / PHAT2 / QUEEN ANDREA / RETNA / REPAS / RICHARD DUPONT / RICHIE CULVER / RUNE CHRISTENSEN / SANTE D`ORAZIO / SHELTER SERRA / SHEPARD FAIREY / SPAZ / STRØK / SUP-C / SWOON / TED LAWSON / TIM OKAMURA / VEXTA / YAZAN HALWANI / ZED
Swoon in The Huffington Post for her solo show at Library Street Collective, Detroit
Artist Simulates What It’s Like To Have A Shared-Death Experience
Since the 1800s, people have described experiencing the deaths of others.
Since the 1800s, people have reported experiencing loved ones’ deaths almost psychically, feeling that they, too, were moving into the beyond.
This phenomenon, which has gained anecdotal support from people around the world regardless of background or religious belief, is often referred to as a “shared-death experience” or “empathic death experience.”
Empathic death experiences don’t always look or feel the same, though similarities between individuals’ accounts help sketch a vague outline of events. The light at the end of the tunnel, for example ― now a hackneyed image associated with the sensation of dying ― originated from the testimonies of people who had undergone near-death or shared-death experiences.
Brooklyn-based artist Caledonia Curry, better known as Swoon, was not familiar with reports of shared-death experiences. That is, until she lived one.
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In an interview with The Huffington Post, the artist described an almost paranormal experience. Her mother, she said, had been sick for months, and Swoon had spent a great deal of time at her bedside caring for her. One evening in 2013, Swoon claims she heard her mother’s voice, felt her very presence, even though they weren’t in the same state.
“I was having really intense dreams about her the whole morning,” Swoon explained. “I kept waking up and falling back asleep. At one point, I thought I was awake and looked out the window. I saw a bunch of snow falling and I thought, ‘Wow, snow in June. That can’t be good.’”
From there, the experience only grew more surreal. “I opened the window, and the snow started to come through my body, transforming into points of light that bloomed into these intricate snow blossoms. I heard my mom’s voice talking to me, and I was filled with a very profound sense of wellbeing and love. I woke up weeping, my face covered in tears. I thought, I think that was my mom dying. My sister called a few hours later.”
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Swoon had experienced dreams before that she says could be described as prescient. Mostly, however, they were “subtle, little events” ― parallels that might raise an eyebrow but could be shrugged off with the morning’s coffee. This experience was something more powerful and impossible to shake.
Even after the evening of her mother’s passing, the sensation lingered. “I had this feeling of a little buoy inside me. I felt held. I couldn’t grieve as much as I expected because I had all this love and light inside me. It makes you question your sanity.”
The intensity of that feeling ― almost as if she were possessed ― compelled Swoon to do some research. “You don’t want to feel crazy,” she said. It wasn’t long before she discovered that her abnormal experience wasn’t actually all that abnormal. “It’s not a common phenomenon, but it does happen,” she added. “Sometimes, when someone very close to you dies ― a family member or friend ― you will share part of their dying experience.”
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Stories like Swoon’s are sprinkled across the internet, from Reddit sub-pages like r/empathic to articles on Salon and CNN to websites like PeacefulSoulTransition.com and SharedCrossing.com.
In 2012, psychiatrist Raymond Moody compiled some of the most common impressions of those who claimed to have felt a loved one’s passing. Their stories involve rooms changing shape, dying people communicating telepathically, bystanders leaving their bodies and witnessing another dimension, becoming engulfed by a bright light that feels like love, and visions of accompanying a dying person through a tunnel towards a great light where they often pass by deceased loved ones.
“The core elements of my experience were described by others,” Swoon said. “As a visual artist, to have people telling these stories, describing this stuff that is so beautiful ― the light and tunnels and meadows and magical places ― I couldn’t resist.”
Swoon @MIMA Museum, Bruxelles
[24 MARS > 28 AOÛT 2016]
CITY LIGHTS
MIMA MUSEUM, BRUXELLES
Le MIMA (Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art)ouvrira ses portes le 24 mars 2016 le long du canal à Bruxelles, dans un bâtiment de l’ancienne brasserie Belle-Vue. Ce nouveau musée belge sera consacré à l’art du nouveau millénaire : un mélange de cultures musicales (punk-rock, electro, hip hop, folk), graphiques (graphisme, illustration, design), sportives (skateboard, surf, sport extrême), artistiques (cinéma, art plastique, performance, BD, tatouage, stylisme), urbaines (graffiti, street art) et geek.
Pour son exposition inaugurale le musée a invité les artistes américains SWOON, Maya Hayuk, FAILE et MOMO à présenter des installations in situ.
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