Artists

Olympia Scarry

Olympia Scarry (b. 1983, Geneva, Switzerland) lives and works in Milan, Italy. Her fascination with materiality is a constant driving force in her work. Her choices reflect the ambiguities of power as they are transferred through thought and substance, between fragility and strength, protection and vulnerability. Gravity and decay also play a role in rendering solid forms formless, in states of flux; caught between weight and weightlessness, the urge to purify and record the material memory of time. As In Saliva (2014), a solid form of soap evolving with time retaining only the markings and memory of toxins; Say It As It Lays (2019), the finest chain mail onyx metal which evokes liquid metal see-ping through the floors which turns solid matter into a liquid state, or Aluminium 98% (2019), a series of abstract drawings created with pulverised micronations of aluminium, copper, and steel powder. Scarry diagrams possibility while at the same time withholding the very point of view that such possibility typically provides, we are asked by the artist to look at the thing that we typically look through. In Parallel Lines Meet At The Point of Infinity (2019), borosilicate glass rods are activated by natural light beams and artificial exposure on a constantly evolving exchange.