Saskia Wilson-Brown, the curator of “Ten Encounters”, interviewed the artists participating in the exhibition to learn more about the encounters they chose to represent olfactorily for the exhibition, how they created the pieces on view, and how working with scent in an art context differs from creating a perfume.

Watch Ömer İpekçi talk about “Shahmaran and Camasb”

Watch Dana El Masri talk about “Ahmosi and Amun”

Watch Niamh O’Connell talk about “Tristan and Iseult”

Watch Spyros Drosopoulos talk about “Theseus and the Minotaur”

Watch Maki Ueda talk about “Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and Engelbert Kaempfer”

Watch Zhi’ang Chen talk about “Admiral Zheng He and the Sultan of Malacca”

Watch Lakenda Wallace talk about Oshun and Ogun

Watch Frederik Duerinck and Anahita Mekanik talk about “The Last Human on Earth and an AI”

Watch Lula Curioca talk about “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Viceroy Lysi”