The Smell of an Empty Room Perfume Plume (Solid), 2011 - 

aroma molecules, unfixed photographic paper, light filters, frame

48,2 × 38 cm each

The Smell of an Empty Space Perfume Plume (Solid), (2011) is a work comprised of sixteen framed pieces of unfixed photographic paper that have been sprayed with the ‘space’ perfume.

The presentation of this line-up of repeating perfume tests could be a perfunctory process, if it was not for a range of factors: the artist’s selection of paper stock (which shifts to a psychedelic purple shade as it degrades) and the obsessive connotations of fixing this allusive substance (which burns an orange spherical imprint into each work). Located in a long corridor that is bathed in red light, where green and blue spectrum light has been removed, the artist literally slows down the rate of change in these light sensitive pictures and metaphorically alters the effects of time. Recreating a photographic dark room with the safelight on, this work also has cinematic properties; there is a distinct sense of time-lapse as you move through the corridor-like gallery with its repeated halo projection.