“This is where ‘It Falls’ begins – a scent-sculpture collaboration between artist Matthew Snead and perfumer-curator Misia-O’, presented as part of off-RCA: Trace.”
“Inspired by the humble roof tile - its endurance, its fragility — Snead reimagines architecture as collapse in slow motion. Working with volcanic clay, he coaxes forms that resist stability: slumped, cracked, exposed.”
“His process is intimate and raw. Memory lives in the clay — in fingerprints, in sweat, in silence. It becomes a body. It breathes.”
To accompany these works, Misia-O' composed AER, an ambient scent that drifts through the space like heat after rain. Notes of bergamot, pink pepper, hedione, ambroxan, and white musk evoke architecture undone
“not falling apart, but falling open.”
Together, sculpture and scent create a space where air holds memory - where presence is temporary, and the unseen leaves a trace.
Rooted in neo materialism and post-human poetics, off-RCA invites artists to explore matter as alive: shaped by emotion, weather, time, and touch.
This is not just an exhibition. It is a memory in progress.
