Video: Feel what Paris smells like. Installation by Hilda Kozari
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
"Do you know what Paris looks like?" - Hilda Kozári asks us. And even if you have never been to this city, the answer is likely to be positive: who is not familiar with the appearance of the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, Louvre … But after this question, Hilda asks another one: “Do you know, how does Paris smell? " If not, then you should definitely visit the installation of the author called "Air" and breathe in the smell of the capital of France.
In addition to Paris, Hilda Kozari invites viewers to get acquainted with the flavors of two more European cities - Helsinki and Budapest. For this, together with the Parisian perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour, three compositions were created, personifying, according to the author, each of the cities. The choice of cities is not accidental, but the explanation is quite simple: Kozari lives in Helsinki now, her previous place of residence was Budapest, and Paris became the third city as the center of the perfumery world.
The installation itself consists of three transparent balls, into which the viewer can enter. Each of them contains personal memories and feelings of Hilda Kozari associated with a particular city and presented in a visual and olfactory format. In this case, the visual images are "transparent, like air, and indistinct, like images in the author's memory, thanks to which the viewers have the opportunity to interpret them in their own way." But the most important thing is that each ball is filled with a certain aroma that evokes various associations and memories. According to Hilda Kozari, "it is not only the smell of the sea, wind, parks, buildings and rubbish, but also the smell of people, the emotional, cultural, industrial life of the city."
The author also adds that when choosing scents, she did not try to choose only good scents and shy away from bad ones. In addition, wherever possible, they tried to use natural raw materials to create the smells: for example, to get the smell of thyme, they took natural thyme oil.
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