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swoon

bio

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.