‚Imagine holding an almost empty glass of water in your hand.
Imagine pressing the glass to your lips.
Inhale.
What do you smell?’
In my artistic practice, I draw on the aesthetics of laboratories, devices for creating scents, laboratory glassware, and equipment for measuring odors. Formal sources of inspiration include tastings and taxonomies of taste and smell. Equally important, however, are the materials of glass and odor, poetry, spatial conditions, the narrative accompanying viewers through the exhibitions, and the perceiving viewers themselves. Conceptual experience and physical perception are not mutually exclusive. The intention of my artistic research is to establish connections between art and science, matter and dematerialization, the nose and the eyes, to create a „re-framing“ that „places [the objects] into a new frame at the moment of viewing, a frame that in turn provides for their evaluation and their connection to history (Hahn, 2015, p. 48)“.