I approach art through a rarely used medium that has disappearing and blurred contours: smell.
Through this perceptive filter, my work questions the relationship between the real and the symbolic. ?It is an invitation to rediscover the multiple facets of our constructed identities. This olfactory perspective highlights our ambiguities in order to better understand our selves.
With my olfactory chronicles, I approach art as a short story novelist who is trying to give depth to our existence. I work like scent: by infiltration. Besides the touch of humour, my work is determined by the impossibility of understanding and representing the complexity of life, lost in the trace of a smell.
The art of odour is an art of the in-between: in-between present and past, in between internal meaning and external reality, in-between the self and the Other. Between these tensions a space for art free from authoritarian conventions of judgement can be found.
By working with what one could define as «narrative representations», I support the idea that any real (social or not) change starts from changes into the imagination and representation fields. This ideological fight is what underlines all the history of art.
Smells force us to further encounter art from a social and contextual perspective, placing it within the here and now.
In the end we must keep smelling.