Paulina Olowska
Kunsthalle Basel
STYLE NEVER REALLY GOES OUT OF STYLE. Paulina Olowska knows this. She also knows resurrectionits rules and its rustwhich she uses as a speculative tool, invoking a litany of historical, elegant forebears, mostly women (finally and thank God). But in order to resurrect something, a stage must be set, a room prepared and fixed. And the rooms in which we make our way and our workbars, studies, studios, theaters, parlorshave long occupied the Polish artist (or she has occupied them). Take her 2004 exhibition “She Had to Discard the Idea of the House as a Metaphor,” at