the fragrance of images

This exhibition presents a selection of works carefully brought together to demonstrate the association between smell, memory and the construction of visual language.

It is a basic human instinct to document, preserve, and materialize experience, often translated and existing as an archive of sorts, a reference to a time lived.

This brings me to my involvement with colección olorVISUAL (the olorVISUAL collection), which facilitated a platform and a unique opportunity to select artists that connected through a similar interest in the poetics of the mind, a cohesive attempt to awaken all the senses.

The selection of works on show here accentuates a need for the social, the political, and in many cases a historical moment as a fundamental form of human expression.

It is an affirmation of cultural identity frequently associated with the psychical space of the mind.

The exhibition presents a diverse group of works in a wide variety of media, with an emphasis on process and in many cases the use of found objects.

Text-based pieces have been chosen as a punctuation and as a direct reference to the poetics of a more open and ambiguous dialogue. A dialogue that is charged by the strength of the individual artists’ voices and the virtual absence of figuration.

Performance-based works take front stage only as a record of a time passed, documented with the camera in the form of photography or video.

Artists are visionaries who perceive the future, often with a sense of optimism. They help us make associations through the simple act of memory, capturing moments that only survive in the mind.

Omar Lopez-Chaoud . Curator