After visiting the Brooklyn museum last Thursday, I wasn't sure what to think of the exhibition. Swoon is a New York artist who makes sculptures and huge prints that are meant to be placed in public. I liked the quality of the work, and it is fun to look at, but I just wasn't sure what I was looking at. After reading the wall text, watching the video and a little bit of research online, I can see that the work is a response to Hurricane Sandy and specifically designed for the Brooklyn Museum rotunda. Besides from that, I'm not sure how the elements of the collected works do that.
Above is a print by Swoon that is in the rotunda. It is about 15 feet high and looks to be a portrait of a person with a headdress or garment made out of feather and crystalline forms. It looks cool, but what is it about? Below is one of two rafts that Swoon made to float both on the Hudson and the Adriatic into Venice. It's a bit similar to Aldo Rossi's floating theater but Swoon's rafts are more exaggerated. People apparently lived on them but I can't image how.
This image below seems to the closest to the Museums promotion of Swoon as an activist artist. But what is the work about? Is it a portrait or a particular person or a documenting of a particular cultural artifact, like the SouthEast Asian figure in the lower right?
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