The effect of odor is immediate. Smells arouse feelings in us put us in moods awaken
recollections. They color the other senses and shape our perceptions more profoundly than we
are aware. Scents create closeness and distance at the same time. They become imprinted on our
memories and consolidate our experiences. And yet their existence in the world of three
dimensions remains invisible and the act of picking up a scent is fleeting. The publication
Odor-Immaterial Sculptures zooms in on the power of smells. Contributions from curators
artists scientists and scholars frame a variety of perspectives on this evanescent phenomenon
examining the olfactory sense and the qualities of the immaterial. Full-page plates conceived
by the artists provide additional information imagery and contexts around the individual
works which put odor as an olfactory and spatial experience at the center of the engagement
with art. The works operate between the poles of time and space individual and community
consciousness and the subconscious visibility and invisibility the everyday and the
miraculous the sense of self and the perceptions of others presence and absence life and
death. Artists : Jason Dodge Carsten Höller Koo Jeong A Oswaldo Maciá Teresa Margolles
Pamela Rosenkranz Sissel Tolaas Clara Ursitti Luca Vitone
