Swiss Art Awards, Messe Basel, 2023
Geosmin
Weather Within
Geosmin
Contemporary architecture creates spaces designed to provide comfort by isolating us from the environment. Invisible infrastructures keep weather, temperature and other ecological processes at a distance, while their consequences are displaced elsewhere.
This speculative installation brings weather back into architectural space. Through an olfactory intervention, it explores the boundaries between inside and outside, artificial and natural, human and ecological perception.
Rather than representing weather visually, the work makes it perceptible through the air itself, turning an invisible environmental condition into an immediate sensory experience.