Parfum Paintings
Installation view at Galerie Jousse-Seguin
Paris, France 1993

First exhibition with all works involving perfume and
the concept of odor, and it's absence.
Catalog produced with Galerie Jousse-Seguin and
Perfumes provided courtesy of Balenciaga.





 




Installation View
Perfume Painting (Piece B)
Perfume is poured from large flask onto surface and collects in
the folds of the fabrics

7' x 5'
Fabrics on canvas with perfume (bottle in fore ground)
1993










Installation View
Perfume Painting (Piece C)
Perfume is poured onto canvas, work is to be sealed in box after use

dimensions variable
3 meters of canvas with cardboard box with perfume
1993










Installation View
Perfume Painting (Piece D)
Perfume is poured into small rubber opening above where it is stored behind work,
whenever desired the small rubber seal below is removed and the perfume
smell  is released

72" x 40'
3 meters of canvas with cardboard box with perfume
1993













Installation View
Perfume Painting (Piece A)
Perfume is sprayed onto canvas, perfume collects inside painting onto velvet,
perfume is smelled through the small holes on painting's surface

12" x 10"
Text on canvas, with velvet and perfume
1993











Detail (Piece A)















Installation View
Perfume Painting ( Piece E)
Perfume is introduced into gallery by a small hole made in the gallery wall
hole in wall @ 3" in diameter
1993










Detail (Piece E)











Photograph of gallery space depicting the zone of scent from (Piece E)




















Detail view of gallery installation