Gather,
Wood.

A sense of familiarity, but enough strangeness
to produce a moment of attention

AN AROMATIC VIEWING

AN INVITATION TO TOUCH

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family : MUSKY DRY-WOODS
feeling: TACTILE, CONTEMPLATIVE, FAMILIAR
texture: SOFT, CURVED, MUTED
series: SILHOUETTES
medium: SCULPTURE
artist: NIAMH O’MALLEY
perfumer: GÉRALDINE IGNESTA

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MATERIALS
ANGELICA SEED, ELEMI, BERGAMOT, IRIS, CARROT SEED, AMBRETTE, BLACK PEPPER, CEDAR ON IRIS, SANDALWOOD, WHITE MUSK

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THE SERIES
From the lens of a perfumer, Silhouettes explores the olfactive nature of an artist's work—whether painting, sculpture, photo, film, music, or performance. Here perfumers, in a series of interviews, essays, art reviews, and artist profiles, translate the world of art into scent.

THE EXHIBITION
Presented at the 59th Venice Biennale's Pavilion of Ireland 2022, "Gather" explores how we pause, attend to, and gather around objects and spaces. O'Malley's sculptural works invite us to slow down and notice the subtle qualities of material presence.