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[Artist Anicka] Yi’s work is often olfactory, honouring the sense she thinks humans have neglected in favour of the optical. “I’ve always maintained that when you’re on death row,” she once said, “you should get last scents or last sounds, the same way you get last meals.”
— Read more in ‘I sculpt the air’ – does scent artist Anicka Yi plan to make Tate’s Turbine Hall smell like vaginas? at The Guardian. Yi's exhibit at the Tate Modern will open on October 12.
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To launch Phantom in the UK, Impero has conceived a futuristic immersive experience set within a spaceship that will land in London's bustling Spitalfields. Inside Paco Rabanne will host "The future of fragrance", a digital exhibition where six digital artists have created works inspired by the fragrance. Exhibits include a cosmic garden and a breathing computer-generated sculpture. The build is by experiential agency Bearded Kitten.
— Read more in Paco Rabanne hosts digital art exhibition inside a spaceship at Campaign.
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What we end up with is a blurry picture of the past, a false yet powerful memory. But experiencing this creates an emotional, physical connection with the natural world. It is that sense of awe and terror and nature’s fragility in the face of human devastation. Each lost species has a knock-on effect on the pollinators it provides for, affecting the species that rely on those pollinators, affecting habitats, and step by step, contributing to climate breakdown. These plants may seem lost and insignificant, but their loss is significant.
— Artist Daisy Ginsberg, on why she worked with scent researcher and artist Sissel Tolaas and biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks to develop scented art installations based on extinct flowers. Read more in ‘Guerilla’ Artist Daisy Ginsberg Re-creates Scent of Extinct Flowers at Scientific American. You can also find more details, images and videos at Ginsberg's website.
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When New York-based textile designer Pallavi Padukone was stuck inside during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, smelling became her escape. Jasmine’s intoxicating aroma transported her to weddings in southern India. The warm scent of cloves reminded her of her mother’s home cooking. When she breathed in sandalwood, she thought of her grandmother and her sandalwood-scented talcum powder.
[...] Padukone gathered smells from her childhood while making "Reminiscent", a collection of scented textiles she exhibited at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey, in September 2020.
— Read more in "Reminiscent": How One Designer Used Scented Textiles to Capture the Fragrances of Home at Mental Floss. (You can find more images of the textiles at Padukone's website.)
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For A Marvellous Entanglement, filmmaker and installation artist, Isaac Julien worked with perfumer Yann Vasnier and the Galerie Folie shop to create a scent inspired by Julien’s 2019 work by the same name. Consisting of performance, film, and photography, the piece is an expansive meditation on the work on the Italian-born, Brazilian-based multidisciplinary architect Lina Bo Bardi. [...] As Vasnier said, ‘I tried to articulate the sensuous movements of the dance sequences on the concrete floor with spicy, musky petals seducing the waxy, musky cement.’
— Read more in Contemporary artists are creating conceptual perfumes at Wallpaper.