Horikawaoike Gallery 
238-1 Aburanokojicho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto
23 June 2021 - 27 June 2021
11:00am-19:00pm  (-17:00 27 June)

Artist: Yasuaki Matsumoto (Kyoto-saga University of Arts)
Collaborators: Sanga Incense, Tetsujiro Suita
Curator: Yoko Iwasaki (Kyoto-saga art college) 

Welcome to the journey of space and time with scents.

The world is full of diverse scents and sounds: the sound and smell of raindrops falling to the ground, birdsong and the scent of young grass...

Scent and sound seamlessly cover our living space spreading outward and upward toward the sky. 

Does the sky have a smell? If the air that surrounds us has a scent and it spreads into the sky, we can say poetically that the world is connected by the scent. We could imagine that if we pursue the scents in the sky we may reach the scents of strange lands far away. 

With the sky embracing scent and sound a forgotten past may be revived and we may discover a previously unknown experience. Encountering elusive scents and sounds encourages us to conceive of what is known / unknown, past experiences / future imaginations, allowing new experiences to emerge in our mind. 

This is a proposal for a new form of travel. 

Whether you are traveling to a destination experienced in the past, or an imagined  place that you would never have been able to visit, encountering new scents and sounds along the way, so it is possible to imagine embarking on a memorable  journey in space and time. 

Yoko Iwasaki 

A video of the performance can be viewed here: そらのにおい soranonioï 2021 吹田哲二郎＋斎藤悠麻 サウンドパフォーマンス & アーティストトーク - YouTube

This exhibition is supported by JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 20H01223 and 20H04443.