Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp

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    The exhibitions Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp and Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens are a collaboration between EMST and M HKA, a theoretical and visual dialogue, based on works from the collections of both museums, which includes more than 70 works structured in 22 topics.   

    28.04.2017 - 07.01.2018        

    M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen - Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen

    EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Kallirrois Avenue & Amvr. Frantzi Str., Athens 11743

    Jimmie Durham

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    (c)image: Alfredo Pernin
    Eurasia, A Scent, 1997
    Jimmie Durham
    Sculpture , 25 x 7 x 10 cm
    glass bottle, scent, textile

    In 1995, Jimmie Durham made a [trip to Siberia](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/3686) and found out that, just like in North America, there were black walnuts. The incredible smell of it reminded him of his childhood and he felt at home. He decided to make a perfume that would have an [Eurasian](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/eurasia) smell which he would in this way preserve, with the green black walnuts as special ingredients. Durham described it on a text accompanying the artwork [*Black walnut*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/1807): “I made an Eurasian perfume, mixing the fresh green shells of the walnut with sage, elderflower, rose and other plants (Black walnut is of course no longer native to Eurasia, but my premise was that it once had been.) The smells of the outer skin, shell and nutmeat are each distinctive, but all beautiful, sexy and spicy. The taste is too good to believe.”

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