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In her installation Out of Body, Olivia Beens explores our changing times, bodies, memories, and collected possessions by divulging aspects of the self. This installation resulted from the need to purge unwanted items in her life, and, by chance, rediscovered bygone treasures, and memories. She found the process of revisiting objects that once held interest and value, X-rays, trinkets, and items thought lost, illuminates her personal history. Utilizing these objects Beens incorporates the mark of her hand by soaking, scrubbing, and scratching photographic emulsion away, adding paint to the …