Anna Perry has created a sensory environment with devices that emit smells, which can provoke individual recollections of place, time or event.
Past Exhibition
Tūrei 18 Mei -
Hātarei 12 Hune
Tuesday 18 May -
Saturday 12 June
2010
Anna Perry has created a sensory environment with devices that emit smells, which can provoke individual recollections of place, time or event. Central to the exhibition is a sculptural apparatus that creates the all too familiar smell of rain-on-hot-concrete continuously inside the gallery.
Perry singles out the olfactory senses because of their close association with the memory centres of the brain. With time our memories become foggy and abstract; as such the exhibition expands to include a collage of found images and material illustrating our desire to collect and cling to things, like fragrances, that contain triggers for us as aide-mémoires. Fog is proudly supported by Serviceman , Placemakers Dunedin and Artzone .
Watch an interview about the project on Channel 9's Dunedin Diary
Presented alongside Light Sensitive: Alternative Photographic Technologies . These exhibitions converge with a focus on alternative chemical and analogue technologies for the synthetic construction of sensations, whether in the replication of an image or scent. They share too an interest in our proclivity for creating and clinging to those things that hold an ability to trigger our memories.
