B. Ingrid Olsen // Relics and Rectangles
Simone Subal Gallery
B. Ingrid Olsen places a photo inside of a photo in her work
Relics and Rectangles. This creates a
“two-tiered mise en abyme”, a French
term for a smaller identical image inside a larger one. This also refers to the
abyss created when holding two mirrors up to each other.
I like the mise en abyme and the idea of two infinite
objects staring at each other. Often the eye is closely photographed and
compared to space. Recently, I’ve been casting glass rocks with aluminum
inclusions. The bubbles suspended in the glass reminded me of space. I decided
to mimic Olsen’s matted photo mise en abyme with the actual representation of
someone staring into an object that could almost stare back in its
infiniteness.
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