B. Ingrid Olson:
Pleasure Traffic
Opening: September 29th, 2023
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The exhibition continues throughout
November 24th.
fluent is pleased to present Pleasure Traffic, the first solo exhibition in Spain by Chicago–based artist B. Ingrid Olson. As an exhibition title, Pleasure Traffic suggests friction: a specific, directional pattern confronts the contingencies of experience while proposing dissident orientations. In spatial terms this translates to an architectural intervention (both sculptural and photographic) which reorganizes the existing accessibility to the space.
Olson triggers a sense of availability (as in lack thereof) by conditioning a spatial experience that cannot be fully perceived or registered in its totality. Making analogies to wider structural configurations —material, social, ideological, physiological, psychological, or spiritual— the exhibition presents gestures and images that confront how we, as subjects, might encounter, dissolve into, or be prohibited within, a continuum of spaces, perspectives and [removed];
B. Ingrid Olson lives and works in Chicago. Recent solo exhibitions include Cast of Mind at i8 Grandi, Reykjavík; History Mother and Little Sister, at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Elastic X at Secession, Vienna. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, (2021); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, (2021) and The Museum of Modern Art, MoMa, New York (2018).
Image: B. Ingrid Olson, Camera [A weird rewriting of negative capability?]
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