OLFACTORY ART
OLFACTORY ART INSTALLATIONS BY ALEXANDRA BACHAND
SPEAKER ON THE ART OF SCENT
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> SFUMATO INVISIBILE (2019)
or Mona Lisa's invisible aura |
> WAR FLOWERS (2017-2021)
International Touring Art Exhibition
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> My life at the Textile (2017-2020)
Hymn to the weavers |
Permanent In Situ Art Installation (2017)
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SPEAKER ON THE ART OF SCENT
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> March 22, 2020 I CCA, (Canadian Center for Architecture) 38e FIFA - The International Festival of Films on Art «SFUMATO INVISIBILE or Mona Lisa's Invisible Aura» Interview with the artist perfumer Alexandra Bachand and the Film Director Eric Delbaere |
> February 12, 2020 I McCord Museum - Fashion at the Museum Perfumes from here, animated by Stéphane Le Duc Interview with perfumers Alexandra Bachand (La Grange du Parfumeur), Isabelle Michaud, Julie S. Jones |
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> November 7, 2019 I Cultural Center of the Université de Sherbrooke - Danse Series Alexandra Bachand I In front of the public, a "live" writing creation - sketching of a perfume inspired by Virginie Brunelle's "Les corps avalés" show |
> May 4, 2019 I Experimental Scent Summit 2019, Amsterdam I
Curated by The Institute for Art and Olfaction + Smell Lab Berlin
Alexandra Bachand I The Immersive Art Through Historic Scent Recreation |
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> March 11, 2019 I Chateau Ramezay Museum, Montreal |
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Alexandra Bachand is a graduate in perfumery and has been a student of indie perfumers in France and the United States. She has a background in computer graphics and multimedia, a certificate in visual arts, as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Bishops University in Lennoxville.
Her artistic approach is based on the art of perfume, which she formulates and designs within installations as a major art medium. Her work seeks to convey an immersive narrative through history in order to pay tribute to the past. The process of writing the perfume is thus fundamental, conveying all the work of emotionality of the artist. This excludes any perspective of a simple odorization. The artistic work is the perfume itself created by the creator. This medium implies a long period of writing, then composition of the perfume made exclusively by the artist, in order to transmit all the authenticity necessary to convey a narrative framework in all its emotionality. Alexandra draws on historical research to compose the perfume, like olfactory artifacts with the intention of communicating a symbolic dimension imbued with poetry.
«The most striking quality of the perfume is to carry us through memories and time. Guided by emotions, olfaction awakes memory and allows a trip otherwise impossible.»
- Alexandra
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WAR Flowers exhibition : interview with Viveka Melki and Alexandra Bachand, artist and perfumer of the exhibition, curator of the olfactory art component.