B. Ingrid Olson

Cast of Mind

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.

Elements, materials, and images are pushed and pulled, slipping in and out of situation. . . . More closely related to a spiral than a line, the permutations of Cast of Mind do not reach culmination and instead tangle into a networked maze, composing an abstraction of both exhibition making and studio processes.
—B. Ingrid Olson, “[Re: Cast of Mind] Intro-Retrospection,” 2026

Published by Dancing Foxes Press, New York (2026)

Edited by Lucy Flint, B. Ingrid Olson
With texts by Nuar Alsadir, Thomas Duncan, Mariana Fernández, Aditi Machado, Sawako Nakayasu, Kate Nesin, B. Ingrid Olson, Th. Killian Roach, Leslie Meredith Wilson, and Kate Zambreno
Design by Chad Kloepfer
380 pages, 110 color images, softcover, 5 x 8 inches
ISBN: 9781954947207