2006

Medium:
Laboratory equipment and chemicals for perfume production, visitor body fluids; dimensions variable depending on exhibition space

Duration:
Minimum 3 days (8 hours per day)

Installation view:
Device_art 2.006, Miroslav Kraljević Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, 2006

Work Description:
Perfume is a participatory installation in which the artist transforms the gallery into a functioning olfactory laboratory. Over the course of several days, Vujičić performs the distillation of a unique fragrance composed from a mixture of laboratory-grade ingredients and bodily fluids voluntarily donated by visitors.

The process unfolds publicly: the artist, assuming the role of both chemist and perfumer, carries out each phase of extraction, synthesis, and blending within the exhibition space. The resulting scent—at once intimate and anonymous—materializes the intersection of technology, biology, and ritual.

By merging the languages of chemistry and the body, Perfume questions the boundaries between the personal and the collective, art and organism, intimacy and exposure. The work destabilizes conventional notions of beauty and authorship, proposing instead a volatile and ephemeral self-portrait created through shared human presence.

Photo credits:
Tomislav Može for KONTEJNER | Bureau of Contemporary Art Praxis

Video Credits:
Ivan Slipčević