Cast of Mind, 2026

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.

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