B. Ingrid Olson was born in 1987 in Denver. She lives in Chicago.
B. Ingrid Olson’s work can take photographic, sculptural or architectural forms, but it is through the medium of her own body that she explores the relationships our bodies can have with certain spaces or objects. She sheds light on the way we experience presence or absence, coincidence or split. In short, she probes the philosophical question posed by Spinoza: “What can bodies do?”
Her meticulously composed images incorporate anatomical fragments, telescoping different visual planes through the use of mirrors and flashes, cut-outs and superimpositions. Here, we experience a body that is both situated and dislocated, perceived and perceiving. Her sculptures and installations extend this experience by deploying objects and structures in which the organic and the mechanical merge, taking the form of psycho-formed casts or prostheses, and sometimes of larger structures in which the visitor’s body is involved through the displacement or reversal of perspectives.
Her work is represented by i8 Gallery (Reykjavik).
