Swoon

Swoon is a street artist born in New London, Connecticut, in 1978. She received her training at the Pratt Institute in New York. Her works began to invade the streets of cities in 1999 while she was still studying, driven by the desire to break free from conventional artistic channels and to showcase her work to as many people as possible. Today, Swoon is one of the most famous and important artists in the international scene, thanks in part to her unique style, rich in ideas and suggestions but also possessing a strong iconographic impact. She is a painter capable of bending and being bent by urban space, giving her works a strong specificity to the locations for which they were created and conceived.

Much of her art consists of portraits from which Swoon aims to extract the essence that unites us all, later displaying them with her posters on the walls of every city. The collection includes two works featuring the same subjects: one depicting Alixa and Naima in a bust view from 2009, and the other showing them in full figure from 2011. In these two works, Swoon's ability to shape the figures and alter their essence while maintaining their iconography is evident. Additionally, in comparing the two works, one can appreciate the sources of inspiration, where an anxious yet refined outline, reminiscent of the 19th century, contrasts with a delicacy and incisiveness typical of Japanese art.