My artistic work is driven by a curiosity for the intangible and the urge to embody the invisible in order to be able to communicate about it. My main media are smell and glass. Glass is a protective shield, a drawing table, an extended body and an extension of my body, with which I can grasp and enter the invisible, the volatile, the intangible.
In my artistic research, glass also serves as a projection surface on which remembered smells stick, are caught, reflected and are made tangible.
There is something uniquely inspiring when looking into artistic processes that are still in progress: unpolished, experimental, and open-ended. Penny for your Thoughts is our project nursery
My artistic research is about how glass becomes odour. Glass is an odourless material. But therefore, I claim, it can be used to tap into our own biological olfactory memory - which is the goal of...
Public Participation during the Uncommon Senses Conference 2021 where Lena Trost presents her Glass Tasting project. Photo taken by Lena Trost
Photo during a digital glass tasting session that was part of the project Glass Tasting by Lena Trost. Photo taken by Lena Trost
Glass tasting participant using tools to experience the smell of glass Photo taken by Lena Trost
From the project Glass Tasting by Lena Trost. These are some of the props used during the Glass Tasting. In context of 'She was like BÄM! meets Geliebte Parasiten im Pförtnerinnenhaus', Cologne 2019.
In context of 'She was like BÄM! meets Geliebte Parasiten im Pförtnerinnenhaus', Cologne 2019. Photo by Nadine Schwickart Fotografie
Glass Tasting at cologne 2019-09. In context of 'She was like BÄM! meets Geliebte Parasiten im Pförtnerinnenhaus', Cologne 2019. Photo by Nadine Schwickart Fotografie
