Zhen Liu

An installation about scent memories of different couples. Audience could smell the signature objects from the couples I interviewed (T-shirt, pillow, ect) and listen to the stories behind it.

https://itp.nyu.edu/thesis2016/project/zhen-liu

Description

SCENT x INTIMACY is a research and story-telling project about how scent influences the way we communicate and interact with our closest partners. It comes with an art installation providing the audience to experience others scent stories by smelling and listening. The project is asking how smell influences our communication and interactions with our lovers? What is the gap between what we perceive and what our partner actually thinks about us? How does scent influence our most intimate life? By gathering answers and stories from couples and showing to the public as an installation, the project allows people to discover the unique beauty of scent in a relationship.

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