I am here but you've gone - Fiorucci Trust - London

Artists Adam Christensen, Patrizio Di Massimo, Adham Faramawy, Ed Fornieles, Celia Hempton, Mary Ramsden, Magali Reus and Prem Sahib have each developed olfactory works as part of a program sponsored by the Fioricci Trust. In collaboration with London based company Creative Perfumers, the artists were encouraged to embrace smell as part of their existing practice. The results are currently installed at the Fiorucci Trust headquarters in Chelsea. Stripped of it's usual furnishings, the house is sparely populated by a small number of visual works including a neon piece, several paintings and a jacket hanging in an upstairs cupboard. The spaces, apparently empty, are in fact filled with a complex variety of aromas. The delivery of each smell varies as much as the aromas themselves. One issues from a tiny hole in the surface of a photographic portrait, one rains down upon the visitor in the alley at the side of the house, another radiates from a pocket of the abandoned jacket upstairs. While there are many past incidences of smells being present in artworks (often an incidental consequence of material choice) the development of olfactory work as an emphatic aspect of an artist's practice is a relatively recent and exciting development. This program is to be commended for taking such a proactive role in encouraging the creative application of olfaction. Until May the 20th.