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Feature Project

Swoon

In collaboration with Mortal Machine Gallery, The San Francisco Mural Museum and Superchief Gallery

A house that travels. Its walls are cut away to show the rooms, portraits and family stories inside.

The House Our Families Built, a house-shaped sculpture with cutaway walls on the back of a truck, on a waterfront at dusk with the Manhattan skyline behind
The House Our Families Built, Brooklyn Bridge Park. Photo: Marshall LaCount.

The work

A large-scale sculpture of an open-air house, with cutaway walls that reveal interior domestic scenes and portraits. Evoking the intimacy of home life, it invites you to peer inside and find the details Curry has painted in her signature style. The project amplifies voices with a particular focus on intergenerational stories and experiences, and offers a moment of collective reflection on what families carry forward from their ancestors, and how it affects the lives of the current generation.

As a roving, mobile sculpture, The House Our Families Built asks you to consider the legacy of ancestral histories, whether through traditions, trauma or repeated narratives, and the ways they inform how we understand and talk about ourselves.

Equal parts pop-up book and fine art installation, the sculpture was commissioned in 2021 by PBS for American Portrait, in partnership with RadicalMedia. It has been donated to The San Francisco Mural Museum, which opens in spring 2027.

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About the artist

Portrait of Caledonia Curry, who works as Swoon, against a dark green wall
Caledonia Curry. Courtesy of the artist.

Caledonia Curry, also known as Swoon, is an artist and filmmaker recognized for her pioneering vision of public artwork. Through intimate portraits, animated films, installations and multi-year community-based projects, she explores the potential for art and the creative process to act as a catalyst for social change and interpersonal healing.

Curry’s work has been shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Petit Palais in Paris and Tokyo’s Mori Museum, among others, but her overarching aim remains to create accessible art that transports audiences while shedding light on pressing social and environmental issues.

As with her street art and the Swimming Cities of Serenissima rafts, she is interested in how art can show up in people’s lives in surprising ways. With her newest work, Sibylant Sisters, Curry has created a long-form narrative world rooted in her experience of growing up in a family that struggled with addiction and psychological instability. It can be experienced across exhibitions and performances, books, film and, most recently, an interactive Oracle Deck.

Images

Inside the sculpture, a painted figure sits among cushions with the city skyline beyond
Courtesy of the artist.
A painted mother and child on a wall inside the sculpture
Courtesy of the artist.
A painted portrait of an older man in a cap and a patterned jacket
Courtesy of the artist.
The sculpture opened out, with wooden stairs, painted panels and a peaked roof, under a cloudy sky
Courtesy of the artist.
The sculpture parked on a waterfront plaza in daylight
Photo: Lauren Silberman.
A close view of the sculpture’s painted interior and carved wooden details
Courtesy of the artist.

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