B. Ingrid Olson. Elastic X

29.06.2022 - 04.09.2022

Vereinigung Bildender KünstlerInnen, Wiener Secession, Wien / Österreich

Through works that are simultaneously photographic and sculptural, B. Ingrid Olson’s practice marks the perceptual relationships between her own body, viewers’ bodies, and architectural bodies. Using her body as a primary material, the work evidences the ways that she inhabits, moves through and changes within the parameters of her studio. Strictures related to vision and architecture, such as apertures, thresholds, mirrors, transparency, opacity, light, and shadow are often doubly present in the work: captured within an image and also present outside of it, acting as a frame.... The results of this process are multidimensional objects and images that re-imagine bodily capacities and the structuring of space.

Working intuitively, Olson uses a variety of means and methods in negotiating the challenge of condensing whole spaces and full bodies into a single picture plane. In fragmented image-impressions, the effects of doubling, reflection, and multiple perspectives thwart coherence—creating tensions between an interior, subjective experience and exterior, pictured subject. Testing the elasticity of representation, she layers depictions of a mutable body set against provisional surroundings, variably enacting gestures or adopting props that signal gendered, or androgenous qualities. Whether captured with a camera, carved using a machine, or cast from a mold, Olson’s images act as empathetic proxies that grapple with the question of what it is to see and to be seen.

Programmed by the board of the Secession
Curated by Annette Südbeck

[Quelle: https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.secession.at/en/exhibition/b-ingrid-olson/]