"Odours" Magazine | ESPACE

by ESPACE

Today, artists are increasingly using odour as a medium in their work: this thematic issue brings together various processes and techniques to underline the importance of olfaction in a wide variety of traditions, disciplines and worldviews, whether it involves materials, experiential events, an extension of nature, or an affirmation of individuality as embodied memory and knowledge. The essays presented here consider the constant exploring of the sense of smell as an artistic impulse. The authors discuss experiences and forms of knowledge that are otherwise marginalized and in which fragrance becomes a vehicle for communicating a multiplicity of voices, identities and realities.