Jordi W. SALADRIGAS

Ego momificado atribuido a Zoser. Necrópolis de Saqqara. Circa 2.600 a.C

  • YEAR: 2013
    DIMENSIONS: 30 x 15 x 15 cm
    TECHNICAL: assemblage of found objects
  • ’[…] the things we have found in these graves are numerous and very beautiful […] There was an urn all of gold, and inside there was still a small wooden box with something the size of a grapefruit, and the soldier who opened it said it smelled of seawater, algae and dead crustaceans […]’

    (Translation of Theodor Konrad Preuss, director of the Forensic Anthropology department at the Max Uhle Institute of Archaeology in Tübingen).

  • Exhibitions

    Septembrer - December 2014
    - smell of Cerdanyola. Olfactory Perceptions of the colección olorVISUAL