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the smell of neutrality
In everyday life, odors settle in textiles, can evoke highly emotional reactions and carry a socio-political momentum. The textile as an analog-responsive storage medium, muff as a phenomenon.
Art spaces, especially white cubes are supposedly visually neutral spaces represent downright sacred places for art. But neutrality is not sought on a visual level alone; the other senses also seem to be muted. How do white cubes smell?
By rubbing undyed linen cloths we capture the specific room odor. The art space is also visually and structurally reflected in the textile in this performative act. From the optical-olfactory samples in aesthetic research a kind of installative archive is created.
selected odors exhibited with cabrio 2021
live performance at the exhibition`s opening