B. Ingrid Olson, Swans Juliet, 2020–22, Elastic X installation view at Secession, Vienna, 2022. © B. Ingrid Olson. Courtesy: Secession, Vienna. Photo: pascal.petignat, Vienna
B. Ingrid Olson’s three solo exhibitions that opened simultaneously in summer 2022—Elastic X at Secession, Vienna; History Mother and Little Sister at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cam- bridge—oozed into one another, calling into question site-specificity while using the self as reference against modernist myths. As the installations beckoned one another and beyond, the artist acted on an archival impulse to suggest that what has been made is never quite finished.
