Irena, 2007
Technique mixte sur bois, signé en bas à droite
Collage, paper cut and mixed media on found wood mounted on board, signed in pencil lower right
15 x 108 cm - 84,5 x 42,5 in
provenance: Black Rat Press, London
Swoon est connue pour la façon élégante qu'elle choisit pour animer ses personnages, confiants et sages, comme s'ils étaient constamment perdus dans leurs pensées. Swoon choisit habituellement de faire des portraits de gens qui semblent en marge de la société, les enfants, les femmes, les minorités le plus souvent en collant les portraits sur du bois de récupération. Swoon est très avare dans son usage des couleurs et son style est unique. Cette toile a toutes les caractéristiques d'une oeuvre de Swoon. Une femme issue d'une minorité apparaît, contemplant sa vie vêtue d'une très belle tenue d'indienne d'Amérique au premier plan. Elle regarde au loin, sa main droite sur son cou, sa main gauche caressant son poignet droit, et nous laisse nous demander quelle est l'histoire de cette femme ou à qui pense-t-elle.
Swoon is known for the elegant way she chooses to animate her figures as confident and wise and as if they are permanently deep in thought. Swoon typically chooses to portray people who appear to be on the margins of society, child, women, and minority groups and more often than as a collage on cut paper and found wood. Swoon is very sparing with her use of colour and her style is unique to her as an artist. This canvas has all the characteristics of a distinct painting by Swoon. A woman of minority who appears contemplating her life is depicted wearing beautiful Native American clothing in the forefront of the work. She gazes past the viewer with her right hand clasping her neck while the left gently caresses her right arms wrist, we are left wondering what story this woman has to or who she is thinking of.
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