SWOON

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 performance work that focuses on the question of how we can more actively live within our cities.

Most recently Swoon was invited as one of the world's ten best street artists to collaborate on Ill Communication II presented by Urbis in Manchester, England.

To create the exhibition, Urbis invited ten artists from cities including New York, Tokyo, Sao Paulo and Munich to create new work directly in the gallery space, providing audiences with a unique opportunity to explore the street art scene taking place literally on the streets of cities around the world.

Currently, Swoon is back in her New York studio working in depth on her Sister City 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 on the street. Photographs as well as elements of three-dimensional installation from which the peepholes are created will be available inside DCKT Contemporary as part of 1:100, curated by Glowlab.