Looking For Langston

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FÀP CATALOGUES · RETROSPECTIVE
11 / 2019

LOOKING FOR
LANGSTON

Director — Isaac Julien
Perfumer — Yann Vasnier
Medium — Film
Status — Available

»Harlem in bloom, Langston in shadow. Mourning, celebration, and desire held in the same breath.«

Released in 1989, Looking for Langston is Isaac Julien's meditation on Black queer desire and the hidden histories of the Harlem Renaissance — the private world of Langston Hughes and his contemporaries, in spaces the world was not allowed to see. Created in concert with the film's 30th-anniversary retrospective at Tate Britain, the fragrance translates that intimate darkness — indolic florals opening in secret, the warmth of leather, the trace of bodies in low light.

AMBERY · SPICY · FLORAL

MATERIALS
transparent floral, indolic floral, leathery notes, musk, spices

Each bottle carries its own artwork. Request a preference at checkout.
Arrives in its handcrafted box from Hokkaido.

Prefer to begin smaller? → DISCOVERY
The full story lives in the archive. → ARCHIVE

FÀP CATALOGUES · RETROSPECTIVE
11 / 2019

LOOKING FOR
LANGSTON

Director — Isaac Julien
Perfumer — Yann Vasnier
Medium — Film
Status — Available

»Harlem in bloom, Langston in shadow. Mourning, celebration, and desire held in the same breath.«

Released in 1989, Looking for Langston is Isaac Julien's meditation on Black queer desire and the hidden histories of the Harlem Renaissance — the private world of Langston Hughes and his contemporaries, in spaces the world was not allowed to see. Created in concert with the film's 30th-anniversary retrospective at Tate Britain, the fragrance translates that intimate darkness — indolic florals opening in secret, the warmth of leather, the trace of bodies in low light.

AMBERY · SPICY · FLORAL

MATERIALS
transparent floral, indolic floral, leathery notes, musk, spices

Each bottle carries its own artwork. Request a preference at checkout.
Arrives in its handcrafted box from Hokkaido.

Prefer to begin smaller? → DISCOVERY
The full story lives in the archive. → ARCHIVE

Issac Julien is an accomplished filmmaker and video installation artist. His multi-screen installations and accompanying photographic works for museums and galleries explore fractured narratives of memory and desire, often uniting elements from dance, painting, sculpture, theater, and music. His 1989 film, Looking for Langston is a poetic treatment of gay black poet Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance. His multi-screen installations, A Marvellous Entanglement (2019) traverse a collection of Lina Bo Bardi's most iconic buildings; offering a meditation on the work and legacy of the visionary modernest architect and Ten Thousand Waves (2019) investigates China's ancient past and changing present through interwoven narratives.

www.isaacjulien.com