Caledonia Curry, whose work appears under the name Swoon, is an American contemporary artist who works with printmaking, sculpture, and stop-motion animation to create immersive installations, community-based projects and public artworks. She is best known as one of the first women street artists to gain international recognition. Her work centers the transformative capacity of art as a catalyst for healing within communities experiencing crisis.
Swoon at the PopTech conference, 2014, Camden, Maine
SWOON: Submerged Motherlands, Brooklyn Museum 2014 Photo: Tod Seelie
A work by Swoon in Djerbahood, Tunisia
A work by Swoon in Berlin
Djerbahood was a street art event in which artists from all over the world gathered in the village of Erriadh on the Tunisian island Djerba to create 250 mural paintings.
The project was established by the Itinerrance de Paris gallery in June 2014.
THE HOOD letters at the entrance of Erriadh quarter
Mehdi Ben Cheikh
Erriadh quarter
Djerbahood