Olympia Scarry
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, 2014
By a lake where, as folklore had it you went to cast away your sorrows, Olympia Scarry’s gilded minimalism alludes to the architectural anxiety of materialized hopes and dreams. The skeletal structure that it profiles may stand on hallowed ground. But, just as the title suggests mankind’s endeavors may be forever in conflict with nature, so we are left always on the outside looking in.
Louenesee Lyrics:
I weiss no guet, wo i är Sunnä bi gsässä. Wit äwäg vom Lärm vo dr Stadt. I weiss no guet, wie i ha chönnä vergässä, dert hindä bim Louenesee.
S'het mi packt, i ha gspürt das i gah mues, eifach furt id Rueh vor Natur. Ganz älei mit äm Chopf voll Gedankä, dert hindä bim Louenesee.
Immer wenn i wider dra dänkä, a das Gfüeu denn am Ufer vom See. De merki wie guet dass mir ta het, i gloubä i gangä no meh, ä Louenesee.
I weiss no guet, wo i är Sunnä bi gsässä. Wit äwäg vom Lärm vo dr Stadt. I weiss no guet, wie i ha chönnä vergässä, dert hindä bim Louenesee.
Immer wenn i wider dra dänkä, a das Gfüeu denn am Ufer vom See. De merki wie guet dass mir ta het, i gloubä i gangä no meh, ä Louenesee, ja i gangä no meh, ä Louenesee, ä Louenesee, ä Louenesee, i gangä no meh, ä Louenesee.
Olympia Scarry (born January 25, 1983 Geneva) is a Swiss artist, she lives and works in New York City. Her work traces mental and physical landscapes recorded through polygraph examinations, animal interactions and the human response to extreme or delicate situations. Scarry captures actions and reactions to moments of frustration and boredom and turns them into something tangible. Often Scarry's objects frustrate our expectations by rendering habitual urges impossible or by glorifying an involuntary response, creating involuntary drawings out of her pulse rate. Scarry looks to bring the audience and herself into conscious form. In creating environments and records of the human touch, Scarry voluntarily allows forms to overpower the physiology, one is inviting the other to lose themselves or rather find ones self again.