OLSON, B. Ingrid
Cast of Mind

Artists, poets and writers reflect on Olson’s contingency of form and the temporal conditions of cognition within and between her multimedia works.

Cast of Mind extends B. Ingrid Olson’s year-long exhibition at i8 Grandi in Reykjavik, where the Chicago-based artist continuously reconfigured the installation in ten successive iterations. Taking this process as a guiding structure, the model of artistic practice as an evolving form is brought into book form and, in Olson’s words, “the attempt to form a hard copy out of something as slippery as a thought process.” The 380-page sequence is an exhibition in and of itself, evidencing Olson’s thought processes as the artworks and their arrangement in space repeat or change, building to a crescendo of simultaneous continuity and dislocation. Newly commissioned writing, along with excerpts from existing texts, is interleaved between images from the original exhibition’s distinct permutations. Playing in time, with continuous, adjusted variations, relations, and encounters, this book casts an exhibition and a thought process that refuses to sit still—ever-changing and ongoing.

In her omnidimensional work, the Chicago-based artist B. Ingrid Olson (born 1987, Denver) engages the reciprocities between photography, sculpture, and architecture. Poetically testing the capacities of the human body in relation to architectural conditions, she calls attention to the ways that gender and power are implicated in the physical and psychological structuring of space. [publisher's note]

Published by Dancing Foxes Press, 2026
Monographs / Artists' Writings