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Swoon - Eidophone 87

Swoon – Eidophone 87

$400

Swoon created a series of works called Eidophones in 2021-2022. Eidophone refers to the 19th century practice of depicting sound tone and vibration through visual representations. These paper cut outs are Swoon’s way of drawing sound, carving it out of the ether.

In March 2022, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (gallery) highlighted a selection of Swoon’s eidophone works for the first time. Their paper forms take inspiration from harmonographs, Chladni plates, natural forms such as ice crystals and radiolarians,…as well as traditional textile and weaving patterns, alchemical symbols, and architecture. Swoon’s remarkable Eidophone works comprised a major part of her nationally touring museum retrospective, and several of her Eidophones will be featured in her first solo exhibition in Asia in 2025.

SKU: 28546

Artwork Description

Swoon – Eidophone 87

Dimensions: 7 x 5.5 x 0.75″
Year: 2022
Medium: cut paper and hand painting on found object

In March 2022, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (gallery) highlighted a selection of Swoon’s eidophone works for the first time.

“Their paper forms take inspiration from harmonographs, Chladni plates, natural forms such as ice crystals and radiolarians,…as well as traditional textile and weaving patterns, alchemical symbols, and architecture.” Curated by Laura Einstein, she calls these collected pieces “Eidophones”. -Brooklyn Street Art

Caledonia Curry, whose work appears under the name Swoon, is a Brooklyn-based artist and is widely known as the first woman to gain large-scale recognition in the male-dominated world of street art. Callie took to the streets of New York while attending the Pratt Institute of Art in 1999, pasting her paper portraits to the sides of buildings with the goal of making art and the public space of the city more accessible.

In a moment when contemporary art often holds a conflicted relationship to beauty, Callie’s work carries with it an earnestness, treating the beautiful as sublime even as she explores the darker sides of her subjects. Her work has become known for marrying the whimsical to the grounded, often weaving in slivers of fairy-tales, scraps of myth, and a recurring motif of the sacred feminine. Tendrils of her own family history—and a legacy of her parents’ struggles with addiction and substance abuse—recur throughout her work.

While much of Callie’s art plays with the fantastical, there is also a strong element of realism. This can be seen in her myriad social endeavors, including a long-term community revitalization project in Braddock, Pennsylvania and her efforts to build earthquake-resistant homes in Haiti through Konbit Shelter. Her non-profit, the Heliotrope Foundation, was created in order to further support these ventures.

Today, Callie’s work can be found on the sides of buildings worldwide and has been given both permanent and transient homes in more classical institutions, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Tate Modern, and the São Paulo Museum of Art. Most recently, she has begun using film animation to explore the boundaries of visual storytelling