02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Swoon's Thalassa and Cairo, with Footnotes. #142

Swoon (née en 1977)

Thalassa, c. 2012

Screenprint on mylar with coffee stain and acrylic

200 x 155 cm.

Private collection

Thalassa was the primordial goddess of the sea. Mingled with Pontos (Pontus), her male counterpart, she produced the fish and other sea creatures. Thalassa was the literal body of the sea and in the fables of Aesop, manifests as a woman formed of sea-water rising from her native element.

Poseidon and Amphitrite, the anthropomorphic king and queen of the sea, were the rulers of the elemental Pontos and Thalassa.

Thalassa is depicted in Greco-Roman mosaics as a matronly woman, half-submerged in the sea, with crab-claw horns, seaweed for clothes, and a ship's oar in her hand. More on Thalassa

Swoon (born 1977)

Cairo, c. 2009-2010

Block print on mylar with watercolor wash, spray paint, acrylic and gouache 

219 x 160 cm.

Private collection

‌Swoon, whose real name is Caledonia Curry, was one of the first street artists to gain international recognition, notably through her exhibition Submerged Motherlands at the Brooklyn Museum in 2014, paving the way for the feminisation of this previously predominantly male art form. Through these installations, her approach mainly explores human communities, their interactions, their possible artistic transformation, but also their traumas and addictions. Her work is held in public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Detroit Institute of Arts and MASS MoCA. She has also had solo and group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Skissernas Museum in Lund, Sweden, the MIMA Contemporary Art Museum in Brussels, Belgium and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Oaxaca, Mexico. More on ‌Swoon

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