Visitors move through Fructaplex©, a fruity, plasticky smell reminiscent of artificial car air-fresheners, to Sylvoxime©, which has a comforting sylvan note of a walk through the forest, before hitting the intense and complex smell called Hyperflor©, which Raspet describes as somewhere between fresh flower petals and putrid, overripe vegetation.
— Conceptual artist Sean Raspet of Detroit has an exhibit at Empty Gallery in Hong Kong; read more at Conceptual art goes molecular with works you can smell but can’t see, and one that ‘sees’ you at South China Morning Post.
That’s an amazing story, thanks for the link! The work made with retinal cells is getting into some ethically ambiguous territory, too.
Honestly I don’t even understand the science well enough to understand how ethically dubious it might be. It just seemed weird to me.