Katerina Santroch

During my four-week residency, I focused on developing an olfactory artwork inspired by the Irish sport of hurling. The project emerged from my fascination with the physicality, intensity, and emotional charge of the game.

I used the residency to further explore perfume as a performative and physical artistic medium. This immediacy became an important conceptual framework for the project, connecting the physical force of the sport with the physical force of olfactory experience.

Its main olfactory elements evoke freshly cut grass and burned hair. The latter references the friction, impact, and bodily exertion present in the game moments when players fall, slide, and collide on the pitch.

Many thanks to Live Art Ireland and Deej Fabyc for providing the time, space, and support necessary for this period of research and artistic development