Slowly a smell at the back of your gaze
Slowly a smell at the back of your gaze is an exhibition that is understood as a crossing of gazes and feelings. The first crossing is of my gaze with the works of colección olorVISUAL and thus with the gaze of Ernesto Ventós himself. It is a gaze that did not work alone: the collector’s sense of smell was what valued his predilection for the works. In this meeting of gazes arises the selection of works that is presented here, before your own gazes, as another crossing. An exhibition that gazes to give a possible feeling to a vast collection, supplied and based exclusively on the senses –physical and conceptual– and sentiments of its founder. The show is designed in four large fields, all starting from sight and the relationship between the gaze and its object. The fields of the exhibition are defined by the following concepts: sight denied and blurred, sight of the landscape, sight of faces and abstract sight. Reading the texts that accompany each of the works of the collection we perceive that there is a lot of memory, time, olfactory memories and evocative images; of forests, of rain and soft earth; of having to remember to smell and of things past, some more remote than others. But beyond what the artists propose that we should see, what is it that you see? Beyond your olfactory memories, what do you smell? I hope that when you visit the exhibition, finally a smell will slowly appear in the background of your gaze.
Pedro Torres
