Olivia Van Kuiken
b. 1997
Chicago, Illinois 

Olivia van Kuiken frequently refers to her strategy as “elliptical,” which is demonstrated both formally and in subject. Her practice is marked by this plurality as she surfs around in a universe populated by Sadian violence, technological sympathies, and lyrical poetry. The work lingers around associations and disrupted trains of thought, the bedrocks of linguistic play. Imaginal complexes are thus achieved through the abstraction and repetition of van Kuiken’s chosen forms. Her research heavy field of vision is constantly renegotiated, though she’s inclined to represent familiar subjects that echo from the past. After all, images belong to no one, it’s all a mere shuffling between artists and generations alike.