Sylvia de Swaan » Portfolio

































































<!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Geneva; panose-1:2 11 5 3 3 4 4 4 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 16777216 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0in; margin-right:32.0pt; margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:16.0pt; mso-pagination:none; tab-stops:21.0pt 57.0pt 345.0pt; text-autospace:none; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Geneva; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family:Geneva; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} -->
A series of diptychs that explore the intersection between public and private domain and how politics and world events reverberate in our lives no matter how far from the “action” we are. I’m interested in the interplay between truth and fiction and how meaning is shaped and altered through juxtaposition and editing.
“Sub-version” is about terror, surveillance, mass media, post-millennial anxiety, virtual reality, shadowy threats and ominous rumors.
<!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} -->
Along The Tracks is an exploration at the peripheries of the former manufacturing districts of Central New York. It’s about the archeology of post-industrialism as well as an expression of my abiding interest in transience, memory, and the markings of history that leave marks on the landscape.
<“Return” is an exploration of my personal history and a meditation on memory and war. It consists of a series of journeys through Eastern Europe to retrace trajectories my mother, sister, and I traversed as refugees at the end of World War II. I'm interested in the construction of narrative and the cinematic juxtaposition of still images - using the voyage as a metaphor for a movie, or a narrative thread that leads one through life.>
Sub-version