Olfactory art
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> Omaggio a l'Italia, terra di profumi (2023) Milan - Italie |
> War Flowers (2018) Vimy -France |
OLFACTORY ART EXHIBITIONS IN CANADA
| > A Forest Ramble (☆Being exhibited - 2024) | > Rosamunde, princess of Cyprus (2023) |
| Sfumato Invisibile (2019) Or The invisible aura of Mona Lisa | WAR Flowers (2017-2021) International Touring Art Exhibition |
| > My life at the Textile (2017- 2020) Hymn to the weavers | > MementoTourigny-Laforest Permanent installation In situ (2017) |
CONFERENCES & EVENTS ON THE ART OF PERFUME
October 19, 2024 | Sherbrooke Book Fair - Participation in a one-hour round table Presented by Radio-Canada network, alongside three other authors on the theme: Enchantment Through the Senses. | > August 25, 2024 I Art & Nature Circuit, Marais de la Rivière-aux-cerises Interpretation Center. 1 hr Conference: What if scent made gardens even more enchanting? |
| March 6-9, 2024 | Esxence - The Art Perfumery Event, Milan, Italy International Ambassador for the World's Perfume Archive in Versailles, France. Presentation of the treasures from the Osmothèque collection. | > June 14, 2023 I Canal M. radio program “Vivement les Femmes» Alexandra Bachand, olfactory poet. Hosted by Marjorie Théodore |
> March 22, 2020 I Canadian Centre for Architecture, CCA) 38th FIFA - International Festival of Films on Art "SFUMATO INVISIBILE or the Invisible Aura of Monna Lisa. Interview with olfactory artist & perfumer Alexandra Bachand and Film director Eric Delbaere | > February 12, 2020 6 pm I McCord Museum - Fashion at the MuseumParfums d'ici, hosted by Stephane Le Duc.Interview with perfumers Alexandra Bachand, Isabelle Michaud and Julie S. Jones |
> November 7, 2019 I Culturel Centre Sherbrooke University - Danse series After bubble event Alexandra Bachand I Live art performance of perfume writing in front of an audience inspired by Virginie Brunelle's show "Les corps avalés | > May 4, 2019 I Experimental Scent Summit 2019, AmsterdamI Curator: The Institute for Art and Olfaction + Smell Lab BerlinAlexandra Bachand I Immersive art through historical olfactory recreation |
> March 11, 2019 I Chateau Ramezay Museum MontrealAlexandra Bachand I WAR Flowers: an immersive and olfactory narrative through the art of per | June 2017 | Villa Estevan, Jardins de Métis, Quebec | Speech on the creative process behind the Fleurs d'Armes exhibition, in the presence of the artists, director, and curator. |
"Of all the qualities of perfume, the most striking is that of transporting us through memories and time. Guided by emotions, olfaction awakens small fragments of the past that allows us to connect in a precious way, otherwise impossible." - Alexandra
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Olfactory art projects resume
From 2017 to 2021, the art exhibition "War Flowers" in which she exhibits 10 scented narratives, has been presented in 7 museum institutions in Canada and abroad has been seen by hundreds of thousands of visitors to date.In 2019, she made a major project in Italy: the olfactory art installation of Sfumato Invisibile on the trail of Lisa Gherardini confirming the perfume as a major art medium. Sfumato Invisibile's approach was the subject of a short documentary that was presented at the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in 2020.
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WAR FLOWERS EXHIBITION: interview with Viveka Melki and Alexandra Bachand, perfumer artist of the exhibition, curator of the olfactory component.