Back Stage #05 Event

IN CONVERSATION
B. INGRID (B. Ingrid Olson, artist, Chicago)
MARINA (Marina Faust, artist, Vienna & Paris)

B. Ingrid Olson implements elements of photography, sculpture, and performance in an ongoing exploration of the perceptual and conceptual relationships between bodies: her own, her viewers’, architectural, textual. In her studio-based practice she uses her body as a primary material and subject. She works intuitively, often using apertures, thresholds, mirrors, transparency, opacity, light and shadow as layered devices that collapse image, support and frame. The results, whether captured with a camera, machine carved or cast, are both photographic and sculptural: multidimensional image-forms that test the capacities of bodies and the space around them. Olson was born in Denver in 1987 and lives in Chicago. With issue #93, a collage of texts, drawings and photographic images, she contributed to the BLACK PAGES project. Under the title “Elastic X” her work is currently on view at Secession, Vienna.

Marina Faust’s multi-faceted artistic practice utilises documentary photography, filmmaking, sculpture and collage to enter questions about identity, the self, subjectivity and alienation. Her works often delineate from a classical understanding of photographic or painterly portraiture, opting instead for a psychological representation that is deeply rooted in dissonance, the contradictions of decision making or the fortitude of time. In her recent solo show “Autonomous Gestures” at GIANNI MANHATTAN in Vienna, Faust contrasts vintage photographic prints from the 1980s with her most recent series, “Ambulant” — large scale prosthetic chandeliers, which are restrained within a metal framework. Marina Faust was born in Vienna in 1950; she lives in Vienna and Paris. In addition to her work as an artist, she is an active contributor to the French art magazine FROG.