Alla Ronikier
BackPerfume Presence
Scents appear unexpectedly. And stay with us - sometimes for a lifetime. We live among scents. They are everywhere. In the air, on the skin, in the house, on the street. Perfumes accompany us 24 hours a day: in memories and dreams, in love and farewell, in everyday life and holidays. Scents are like people. Each one is different. Each one is present in its own way. And, like people, scents also have their dual nature: external and internal, visible and invisible. In this project, artist Alla Ro1
Scents appear unexpectedly. And stay with us - sometimes for a lifetime.
We live among scents. They are everywhere. In the air, on the skin, in the house, on the street. Perfumes accompany us 24 hours a day: in memories and dreams, in love and farewell, in everyday life and holidays.
Scents are like people. Each one is different. Each one is present in its own way. And, like people, scents also have their dual nature: external and internal, visible and invisible.
In this project, artist Alla Ronikier explores this duality of scent - as its body and as its train.
“I wanted to convey scent as something material - and at the same time elusive. As a composition and as the trace it leaves.”
Each fragrance in the exhibition is represented by two works - it's like two sides of one experience:
• Bouquet - a painting that shows the material part of the fragrance: flowers, spices, trees, textures. This is the body of the scent - its character, strength, movement.
• Sillage - an abstract work about what remains after. About a fragrance that floats in the air like a memory. It's not a form - it's a feeling.
A separate work that doesn't belong to any specific fragrance, but unites them all and is the main idea of the exhibition: "Presence". It shows a city flooded with rain. Umbrellas. Blurred contours. Flowing light. This is a visual metaphor for smell in space. The fragrances here are like rain: they envelop, drip, mix, disappear and remain. It's about an invisible but tangible presence that accompanies us in a variety of states - from joy to sadness.
This exhibition is about smell as a way to remember. About aroma, as about the silence after words. About a presence that cannot always be explained, but can always be felt.
Smell is a memory. It is a moment. It is someone's trace in our air.
We live among scents. They are everywhere. In the air, on the skin, in the house, on the street. Perfumes accompany us 24 hours a day: in memories and dreams, in love and farewell, in everyday life and holidays.
Scents are like people. Each one is different. Each one is present in its own way. And, like people, scents also have their dual nature: external and internal, visible and invisible.
In this project, artist Alla Ronikier explores this duality of scent - as its body and as its train.
“I wanted to convey scent as something material - and at the same time elusive. As a composition and as the trace it leaves.”
Each fragrance in the exhibition is represented by two works - it's like two sides of one experience:
• Bouquet - a painting that shows the material part of the fragrance: flowers, spices, trees, textures. This is the body of the scent - its character, strength, movement.
• Sillage - an abstract work about what remains after. About a fragrance that floats in the air like a memory. It's not a form - it's a feeling.
A separate work that doesn't belong to any specific fragrance, but unites them all and is the main idea of the exhibition: "Presence". It shows a city flooded with rain. Umbrellas. Blurred contours. Flowing light. This is a visual metaphor for smell in space. The fragrances here are like rain: they envelop, drip, mix, disappear and remain. It's about an invisible but tangible presence that accompanies us in a variety of states - from joy to sadness.
This exhibition is about smell as a way to remember. About aroma, as about the silence after words. About a presence that cannot always be explained, but can always be felt.
Smell is a memory. It is a moment. It is someone's trace in our air.
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