Events

Fischersund: Faux Flora Exhibition at
The National Nordic Museum

Photo credit: Jim Bennett/Photo Bakery for National Nordic Museum

Transport yourself through scent, sound and art starting November 8th as The National Nordic Museum unveils Fischersund:  Faux Flora, an immersive multimedia exhibition integrating scent, sound, sculpture, 3D-graphics, and photography.  As featured in The New York Times, The Fischersund Art Collective’s first-ever museum show draws upon the multidisciplinary artistic talents of co-founding siblings Jónsi (our nose), Inga, Lilja, and Sigurrós. 

 Faux Flora invents new plant species and is a sensorial display of human existence shown through the lens of plants. The plant life cycle—germination, growth, flowering, seed formation, and dispersal—is superimposed on the life cycle of a human—birth, childhood, adolescence, maturity, and old age.

Faux Flora will open on November 8th with a sold-out scented concert, in which The Fischersund Music Collective will perform and incorporate ethereal visuals with olfactive experiences. An encore sold-out scent concert will also take place on November 10th. For additional insight into their collaborative artmaking, the Museum is presenting a panel discussion featuring the siblings on November 9th.  

 To encourage exploration of the exhibition and its themes, the Museum has organized exhibition-related talks. On December 5, leading researcher Dr. Venkatesh Murthy, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Director of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University, will talk with co-founder Lilja Birgisdottir about the connections between scent, memory, and emotion.

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