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Imagem & Olfacção (Image & Olfaction)

4SCENTS_4IMAGES: IMAGE AND OLFACTION PROJECT

FRAGRANCES:
Imaginary Authors
Meo Fusciuni
In-House Smound
Lijoca

PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Primavera de Lima
Sara de Pinho
Jorge de Sousa
Manel Neves

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We confront four artists photographers, with their own olfactory memories. Unknown to each other, with different aesthetic sensibilities and life experiences, we travel with them through different odors, aromas and fragrances. We wanted, that they smelled, felt and gained consciousness of the sense that quite naturally have, but probably very little had used consciously, in the creative process. We challenged a return to the past, and the capture of that moment!

We tease this ideasthesic moment with the intersection of semantic content, got through the experience of a lifetime, with an activator of olfactory memory, enclosed within a 5ml container in the form of a fragrance! The result was immediate. The journey had begun. Without any condition, or embarrassment. It would only be necessary to express it through the way that they knew best: The photography, unedited!

We were aware that from the point of view of real experience, the visual representation of scents, both in art and in literary descriptions, has nothing to do with olfactory art, but only with the meaning and with the suggestion of environments and atmospheres . We knew that an olfactory art work has to be really felt and smelled. Our goal is a more intense sensorial experience. From sight to the olfactory sense: from the olfaction to the Image. As such, we chose a synesthesic installation, where the images are displayed side by side with the scents, which gave rise to them. 16 Photos: 4 Artists, 4 Aromas, 4 images.

In a gallery, full of artistic memories, and that itself appeals to all the senses, located in heart of the historical area of Porto, and with a superb view over the Jardins das Virtudes and the Douro, will be open to the public from January 29 until February 27.

To the imagination of the spectator!

  • Initiative: Smound _ Art & olfaction,
  • Support: Nicho _ Perfume d’Autor
  • Curated by João Losa & Tiago Monteiro
  • Special thanks to Josh Meyer, Giuseppe Imprezzabile and
    Laura Soutinho.
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  • http://www.arvorecoop.pt/
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Next Wave Festival: Scent narrative

Established in 1984 to foster creativity and experimentation, Next Wave is the most comprehensive platform in Australia for a new generation of artists taking creative risks. With Next Wave celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2014, curator Katie Lenanton  decided upon the idea of “celebration” as the “scent narrative” underpinning the project: Continue reading Next Wave Festival: Scent narrative →

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“Olfactory art makes scents – and who nose where it might lead us?”

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“Olfactory art” – art concerned with smell – is currently a relatively minor field. But a growing number of contemporary artists are starting to explore the potentials of olfactory art. [Last] year’s Next Wave festival in Melbourne presents Smell You Later (May 1-11), a series of “scent-based encounters” in bathrooms, corridors, lobbies and stairwells of various festival venues.

More at: http://theconversation.com/olfactory-art-makes-scents-and-who-nose-where-it-might-lead-us-25643

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Chandler Burr talks about scent art | Aisthesis Project – curating the multi-sensory

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If you haven’t seen this interesting talk by olfactory curator Chandler Burr about perfumery as a form of art, here is your chance.

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Morgan Wong, That’s How I Used to Know I Have In Fact Crossed This River, 2015

Even after reunification, it is not only physical boundaries that still set apart Hong Kong and China; there is also the invisible separation between the two places through scent. Lowu Bridge is one of the most prominent connection-division junctions between Hong Kong and Shenzhen where one can immediately sense the distinction in scent beyond the border controls. 

For this new commission, Wong worked closely with a senior perfumer from International Flavors & Fragrances, a leading company in the design of synthetic scents, to create a scent of the memory of arriving onto the other side of the Lowu Bridge (including the “scent of human oil, sweat, metal, grass, fuel etc.”). 

Apart from scent, the work also includes a sculpture in the form of a pavilion referencing a historical image. The work is currently on show until 6th Sept 2015 at Para/Site Art Space, an internationally acclaimed non-profit art space in Hong Kong. You can read and see more here.