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Elena del Rivero [Swi:t] Home

Discipline
Visual Arts
Medium
Installation
Subject

Environment
State
New York
Year
2001
Status
Completed

Description

[Swi:t] Home is an installation that combines papermaking, performance, fiber art and sound. Del Rivero began the project by creating paper “dishcloths” at Dieu Donné Papermill in New York. As part of [Swi:t] Home‘s exhibition at the Drawing Center in July 2001, del Rivero took discarded material from the dishcloths and created a thread linking the Center and Dieu Donné. After her lower Manhattan studio was heavily damaged by the fall of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, an extension of [Swi:t] Home was built by del Rivero from office documents that landed in her studio after the fall of the towers.

Elena del Rivero

Elena del Rivero has had solo exhibitions presented at the New Museum (New York), Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), International Center of P…
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Project Updates

2011: [Swi:t] Home: A CHANT is featured in solo exhibition at the New Museum in New York
2010: del Rivero works with Leslie McCleave to cut a 10 minute mini documentary of [Swi:t] Home
2001: [Swi:t Home] premieres at the Drawing Center’s Drawing Room in New York
2008: [Swi:t] Home is presented as a solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC