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How do we preserve lost histories? Swilk’s installation at the @InternetArchive made the digital physical. Textiles pulsed & breathed when users accessed archived HIV/AIDS resources, many altered or gone from the live web.⁠
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🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio. taken in Internet Archive by @swilkwork

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“Repeating Patterns” 2025
Deep thanks to @ellontheinternet and @sifrasmus for performing 💌
Grateful for @trippytoya ‘s assist
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#Fiberart #installation #bayarea #queerart taken in Oakland, California by @swilkwork

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Showing work with friends in the Unity Fest show at @southernexposuresf this Saturday with an incredible line up 💌 curated by @jeffcheung1 @unityskateboarding see you there by @swilkwork

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MEMORY, BODIES, RITUAL
On view at Cine Lounge @madarts_space through December 20. A group video exhibition presented by @performance_in_flux

Featured in the exhibition Repeating Patterns and Always speaking you by Swilk @swilkwork

In Swilk’s performance installations, ethereal figures bound to their environment explore queer identity as an innate part of the human condition. The performers connect to objects of the Earth, emphasizing how the persistence of queerness parallels the permanence of the natural world. In the face of ongoing political violence, their work asserts that to eliminate queer people would require an undoing of human nature. “We are as inherent as the Earth itself.”

Repeating Patterns performed by Ell Boysen and Sif Rasmussen, Assist by Toya Willock
Always speaking you performed by Carmina Marquez and Tasya Abott

Swilk is a queer fiber installation and performance artist who creates both mechanically automated and environmentally activated sculptural weavings. Based in Oakland, California, their work connects people to the gestures of resilience that emerge from grief, particularly in the context of queer history.
Swilk has presented solo and group exhibitions internationally, including major projects at the Internet Archive (San Francisco), CICA Museum (South Korea), and New York Fashion Week, with work exhibited across the US, Europe, and Asia. taken in MAD Arts by @swilkwork

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“In Every Moon, A Mirror” 2026
Based on José Estaban Muñoz’s thesis in “Cruising Utopia” (2009) which asserts “queerness is not here yet, it is as destination on the horizon.”
The bathroom is the vehicle to that horizon
Thank you to Samer for building the head mechanism with me 😭 love you sm by @swilkwork

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“In Every Moon, A Mirror” 2026
Based on José Estaban Muñoz’s thesis in “Cruising Utopia” (2009) which asserts “queerness is not here yet, it is as destination on the horizon.”
The bathroom is the vehicle to that horizon.
Huge thank you to Samer for making the head mechanism with me - I love you so much 💌 by @swilkwork

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The work I made for this show is some of the most technical and detailed work I have ever made. This show is so special to me, I’m so excited to share it with everyone.

Public Sanctuary opens this Friday from 8pm-10pm at @2727californiastreet in Berkeley.

Featuring
@affordablequinoa
@ellontheinternet
@xinchenli_art
@verdebeanz by @swilkwork

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Proud to announce Public Sanctuary, a group exhibition a year in the making. The show explores the ways the public restroom has shaped queer culture and identity by transforming 2727 California into an immersive bathroom installation. The exhibition showcases a collaboration by five Bay Area artists Swilk, Patty Pacheco, Ell Boysen, Xinchen Li, and Bella Bond. Sounds by @t4stemaker Reception 8/21 8pm-10pm. taken in 2727 California Street by @swilkwork

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“When I am lost I look to the sky” 2026
Last clip for now of this piece, excited to adapt this work for a show in August, coming soon by @swilkwork

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“When I am lost I look to the sky” 2026
Performed with Samer
Clip 3/4 by @swilkwork

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“When I am lost I look to the sky” 2026
Feeling emotional about this piece, grateful for the people I love, grateful for @eartheater ‘s music, grateful to be making art
Performed with Samer by @swilkwork

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“When I am lost I look to the sky” 2026
Special thanks to @meinolfweavingschool for helping this weaving come to life
Performed with my sweet angel Samer
Thanks to @screwmoi for the assist and @stephen_goldstein for photographing by @swilkwork

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