Petite Balade
July 2017
FORUM KYOTO
604-8015, Nabeyacho, Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto, Japon
http://olfactoryresearch.net/

with
Nathan Cohen
Reiko Kubota
Boris Raux
Yasuaki Matsumoto
Takumi Tsukahara
Yoko Iwasaki

Komorebi (light through the trees) - 2017
A carpet made with hiking shoes laces, my hiking shoes, pine wood trucks, IR lamp, fan, pine honey, immersive headphone, sound of the forest and smell of fireplace.

Komorebi is an immersive art installation that tends to offer an escape from the urban and noisy exhibition context. Through a multi-sensorial approach this installation seeks to bring each visitor to the middle of a forest, and to have enough rest and quietness to be able to be immersed within their own “Natsukashi” memories of pastoral experiences.

Jeanne Goutelle, a textile artist, produced the carpet made of shoes laces from my own hiking shoes. This carpet recreated the softness of a moss ground and played by contrast with the hard concrete floor of the exhibition space. A stick of pine honey brings a bit of taste of the forest. An IR Lamp gives the feeling of a warm sun on your face. The wind of a small fan skims your legs. A sound recording projects the visitor between the cracking of the trees and the birds singing, and finally a wax with the scent of a fireplace was mixed with the smell of freshly cut pinewood.