REVOLUTION! at PS1

Detail of "time suspended", 2007, an installation presently on view at PS1 MOMA

Lisa Kirk presents an installation featuring her custom-made perfume, REVOLUTION! The perfume contains the odors of smoke, gasoline, tear gas, burnt rubber, and decaying flesh and acts as an olfactory critique on contemporary luxury branding and political im/possibilities. A glass door seals off Kirk's adjacent installation, Time Suspended. in which the transformed space detailed with Molotov cocktails, peeling wallpaper and a laboratory is turned upside down as the imagined production site of the fragrance REVOLUTION!.

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