V–A–C Sreda online magazine continues its three-month programme dedicated to memory and its relationship to history, archives, and nostalgia.
What makes olfactory art interesting? How is it connected to Surrealism? Do fears have a smell? How do museums engage with this field, and is it possible to experience the scent of 19th-century Paris?
V–A–C Sreda editor Maxim Shibaev considers these and other questions alongside Darya Donina, an olfactory heritage researcher and curator, and Anna Kabirova, a perfumer and founder of Russia’s first olfactory art gallery-laboratory, NevidimayaLab.