Pep CARRIÓ

cabeza lastrada

  • YEAR: 2011
    DIMENSIONS: 35 x 20 cm
    TECHNICAL: mixed media
    MODE: escultura
  • I remember the smell…

    20 smells in the memory

     

    I remember the smell of an old photo album.

    I remember the smell of alcohol and fear when the nurse came.

    I remember the hot smell of the mule in the stable.

    I remember the smell of the wet earth in September.

    I remember the dark smell of the wardrobes in my grandparents’ house.

    I remember the smell of candles and saintliness in the church.

    I remember the smell of vinyl records being slipped out of their sleeves.

    I remember the smell of the sea in washed-up driftwood.

    I remember the smell of molten lead dropped into water.

    I remember the smell of the boat when we went to Barcelona, saltpetre and fuel oil.

    I remember the smell of string and cardboard in my grandfather’s storeroom.

    I remember the smell of a book about the human races.

    I remember the smell of pipe and sadness at my aunt and uncle’s house.

    I remember the smell of an old photo album.

    I remember the smell of the little grocery, food and detergent.

    I remember the smell of smoke when Sebastià burned stubble at dawn.

    I remember the smell of Chinatown in Palma, rust and damp.

    I remember the narcotic smell of fig trees.

    I remember the smell of grease and iron of an old pistol.

    I remember the smell of abandoned houses.

     

    Pep Carrió

    23/03/2011

     

  • Exhibitions

    - smell of Cerdanyola. Olfactory Perceptions of the colección olorVISUAL
    - the lost identity. the face, colección olorVISUAL