Art as a Smell

'If There Ever Was'; the title of a new exhibition at the Reg Vardy gallery in Sunderland. "Opening on Tuesday April 29 2008 and running until Friday June 6 2008, fourteen different scents will be on display in an exhibition of extinct and impossible smells." Well, well. I read Perfume by Patrick Suskind only last year, and was captivated by the idea of fabricating a scent (albeit in that case through homicidal means). I am also disgusted at the notion that shops actually pump synthetic smells into our noses in the aim of selling to us tickling our connotative nose buds. Not to mention all of that celebrity endorsed toliet water. When in Barcelona, I spent hours with my sister searching for the cheapest, latest designer scent she just had to have. If I decide I need to smell nice, I shall go to Grasse to concoct my own personal scent from freshly cut dandelions.



My father works in Sunderland, so if I ask nicely he'll give me a lift.