Like Petrichor for Camels

site specific installation at the National Archeological Museum of Naples: Isis Statue from Pompei collection, 100x 40 cm LED signs, text (English and Italian), electric cables and steel cables, 1 open window on the city panorama, a closed shutter.

The installation relocates the statue of Isis to a central position in the museum, almost as if watching over the entrance to her temple and the model of Pompeii. The ankh in the Isis hand is a sign of vital breath. Its is made palpable by invoking an olfactory sensation: the petrichor. This smell is released when water from the rain melts the resin that envelops the seeds. A scent that camels smell at great distances and chase for kilometres in the desert.

The ankh is also a symbolic abstraction of the situla: a breast-shaped milk container, and from this reading the action in the public space begins.

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