ODORLESS


 

 

Odorless

 In 1942/43, the SS engineer Kurt Gerstein asked Degesh, one of IG Farben's subsidiaries to remove during the manufacture of the insecticide Zyklon B the chemical components responsible for its odor thus removing the pesticide used in the gas chambers its irritating character. Zysklon B, which was odorless, was previously manufactured with an odor indicator to warn humans when the gas was used against insects.


In this series Odorless the artist uses this metaphor to symbolically capture how much the sweet smell of the actions and the past of certain companies - companies of which he is diverting the image here - have precisely over time "lost the smell" of theirs direct or indirect participation in the Nazi genocide.


It is also with this absence of “odor” that the artist plays on ironically by making visually significant this unfortunate contrast between this absence of odor from the pesticide used by the Nazis in the gas chambers and the companies which made around the “ perfume ” their success story.



Perfume of scandale, 2020

Mixed media

25 x 15 cm 

Restorative Night Moisturizer, 2020

Tin Cans, acrylic paint, silicone.

30 x 20 cm 

Lipstick Auschwitz N.31, 2020

Tin Cans, acrylic paint, silicone.

70x 40 cm 

43-Coco rouge Mort, 2020

Tin Cans, acrylic paint, silicone.

30 x 20 cm 

Nourishing Cream for Dry Skin, 2020

Tin Cans and acrylic paint

25 x 20 cm 

Expired Product, 2020

Tin Cans, acrylic paint, silicone.

30 x 20 cm 

Racial overnight Masque,

Mixed media

15 x 10 cm 

Without Scent, 2020

Tin Cans, acrylic paint

30x 15 cm 

Unloaded gas, 2020

Tin Cans and acrylic paint

10 x 10cm 

Unloaded gas, 2020

Tin Cans, acrylic paint

10 x 10 cm 

Renault Second hand, 2020

Mixed media

10 x 10 cm 

Racial Face Moistorizer,

Tin Cans, acrylic paint, silicone

10 x 15 cm 

le Lift, 2020

Mixed media

15 x 10 cm 

Racial Face Lift,

Mixed media

15 x 10 cm 

Anti-ageing night cream for oily skin, 2020

Tin Cans, acrylic paint, silicone

30 x 20 cm 

Anti-ageing night cream for oily skin, 2020

Tin Cans, acrylic paint, silicone

30 x 20 cm 

Wrong number, 2020 

Mixed media

22 x 15 cm 

Night and Day repair Cream, 2020

Tin Cans, acrylic, Silicone

 20 x 10 cm 

Lipstick Dachau N.43, 2020

Tin Cans, acrylic, Silicone

 70 x 40 cm 

Collection privee by Adolf, 2020

Tin Cans, acrylic, Silicone

 20 x 10 cm 

Goodnight Glow, 2020

Mixed media

25 x 20 cm 

Beauty Sleep, 2020

Tin Cans, acrylic paint, silicone.

30 x 20 cm 

Racial Moisturizing Lotion, 2020

Mixed media

15 x 10 cm 

Smoke without fire, 2020

Tin Cans, acrylic paint

10 x 10cm 

Volkswagen, 2020

Mixed media

10 x 10 cm 

Porsche Legocy, 2020

Mixed media

35 x 35 cm 

Creme de Zyklon B, 2020

Tin Cans, acrylic paint, silicone

10 x 15 cm 

IG Farben Gift Gas, 2020

Tin Cans and acrylic paint

10 x 10 cm 

Pyramid of success, 2020

Tin Cans and acrylic paint

70 x 45 cm 

Marechal Vuitton, 2020

Mixed media

25 x 25 cm 




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