Ether: Aromatic Mythologies

At Craft Contemporary Museum
May 30, 2025 — September 7, 2025

Transcending geographical boundaries, mythology conveys universal truths  and archetypal constructs. Smell, similarly, possesses a remarkable  capacity to do away with immediate temporal constraints. Unsurprisingly,  many cultures use smell as a conduit to different realms of human  awareness, memory and consciousness. Smell, therefore, creates an  ethereal connection that underscores the profound and often mysterious  impact that sensory experiences can have on the human sense of selfhood.  Expanding on this, Ether: Aromatic Mythologies examines the  confluence of storytelling, identity, and scent by delving into ancient,  modern, personal, or entirely invented mythologies. The thirteen  olfactory artworks on show seek to explain our most fundamental  understanding of ourselves, and how scent can impact systems of meaning  in relation to the inexplicable, the historical, or the unknown.