Gather, Wood.

$160.00

A sense of familiarity, but enough strangeness to produce a moment of attention.

A FRAGRANCE IN THE STYLE OF SCULPTOR’S WOODWORK PROCESS

Tone: Familiar, Comforting, Gentle, Precise
Texture: Soft, Warm, Cushioned, Curved, Dusty, Coated, Cosy, Dry, Muted, Even, Grainy, Neat
Opacity: Translucent
Volume: Low
Pitch: Low
Movement: Covering
Verb: Recall

AN INVITATION - TOUCH, WARM, THOUGHTFUL, FAMILIAR, OF CRAFTSMANSHIP,
/ angelica seed, elemi, bergamot, iris, carrot seed, ambrette, black pepper, cedar on iris, sandalwood, and white musk /
MUSKY, DRY, WOODY.

This fragrance is an aromatic transcript of a 2022 exhibition review and interview with NIAMH O'MALLEY on her Venice Biennale exhibition "Gather:” for the Irish pavilion.

YEAR
2022

PERFUMER
Géraldine Ignesta

COLLECTION
Silhouettes

SILHOUETTES

From the lens of a perfumer, SILHOUETTES explores the olfactive nature of an artist’s work—whether painting, sculpture, photo, film, music, or performance. Here, a series of interviews, essays, art reviews, and artist profiles, are translated into scent.

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Niamh O’Malley’s artwork reveals a profound appreciation for the act of trying. Trying to catch a certain slant of light, trying to prove a pattern or uncover a composition, trying to fathom a mountain, trying to hold time still. Working with the moving image, mark making and sculptural materials such as glass and wood, O’Malley’s work attempts to contain and reflect the weight and wonder of the world in its becoming. It is the act of trying, in the face of predictable failure, that gives way to conviction and a sense of hope within the artist’s work. Full of reflection, both literal and metaphorical, filled with absence and framed by negative space, O’Malley’s work asserts something unstoppable about the human spirit, something that neither distance nor death can extinguish. By Kate Strain

Niamh O’Malley in her Studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 2021
Photograph: Dragana Jurisic
Courtesy Ireland at Venice 2022

Gather, Wood.

A sense of familiarity, but enough strangeness to produce a moment of attention.

From the lens of a perfumer, SILHOUETTES explores the olfactive nature of an artist’s work—whether painting, sculpture, photo, film, music, or performance. Here, a series of interviews, essays, art reviews, and artist profiles, are translated into scent.

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