Author: Olson, B. IngridThis first monograph on multimedia artist B. Ingrid Olson accompanies History Mother and Little Sister (two simultaneous exhibitions held in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts), in which the artist engages in a sculptural and photographic dialogue with embodiedness and Le Corbusier's famous building. The book's innovative design also includes past work, and a selection of the poetry and criticism central to Olsen's practice. Informed by notions of doubling and mirroring, unexpected uses of footnotes and architectural fixtures as well as the work of figures such as Madeline Gins and Eileen Gray, Olsen's two exhibitions insinuate her own objects and images into a sometimes tense, playfully knowing relationship with Le Corbusier’s famous building, probing the normative, gendered and material experiments of the structure’s modular elements of concrete, glass, plywood and primary colours. The book's innovative design brings together documentation of the site-specific installation, sketches and reproductions of other works made over the last decade, putting them into conversation with a selection of poetry and criticism that informs Olson’s practice.ISBN 9781735230528. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. pb. 184 pages. 94 colour, 40 b/w ills. 27 x 22 cm.available
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