Baku, September 20 (AZERTAC). Gazelli Art House invites all art lovers to visit an exhibition of works by young Swiss artist Olympia Scarry on the “Self Graph”. The exhibition will be on display till November 30, 2013.

Olympia Scarry`s self graphs are generative art which uses the body as its generator, self-portraits in which the “Self” is capitalized. Scarry professes an interest in “putting physiology and physiology on the same page”, transforming the workaday processes of the body into automatic drawings - drawings which explore the intersection between self-deception and biological truth. By hooking herself to a polygraph machine, the artist has placed herself in a situation which is as uncomfortable as it is unconscious; the lie-director artworks presented in Self Graph are intentionally made without skill or direction, and so they are the platonic ideal of “Self” expression. In a polygraph test - as, to some degree, in psychological examination itself - the subject is betrayed by his or her own mind, and body.

The exhibition contains a series of golden finger-casts, Gold Finger, designed to evoke the ancient Egyptian practice of preserving the body and soul through gilding; a black wax cast of the artist`s hand in a posture intended to stimulate the body, Black Hand and a series of “paintings” on copper, executed with the aid of saliva. Born in 1983, Olympia Scarry was born in Geneva, and currently lives in New York. Her earlier studies in psychology and forensics have informed Self Graph, where secret or involuntary actions - and latent human desires - are brought to light, and exhibited in a gallery context. Introspection and personal examination - Freudian dreamscape images, like a white horse lapping at a salt-lick with its tongue, or an army of hanging bags, suggesting hanging bodies, or a yawning bust, agape; a photograph of some pre-chewed gum - characterize her output. Scarry has, to date, exhibited in group shows at the Barbican, Art Basel Miami and the Venice Biennale, and has mounted a solo show at The Conduits in Milan.