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In The Scent of Home, a solution of wolf faeces is being sprayed on trees, streetposts, corners of buildings,
or where else a dog might put their markings in city spaces.Wearing reflective clothing, the distributor
of the wolf scent takes on the appearance of a public worker, and the actions taken a necessity.
The focus of the work lays in an exploration of the question, how territory is distributed and claimed in
urban spaces, between humans and other species. Instead of creating a „smellscape” for us humans, one was created that we can’t perceive as such, but only have an idea of what it might say for other
beings. Rather than the sense of smell, The Scent of Home is more concerned with the capacity for empathy: The focus of the work wasn’t to make people smell the excrement of wolves, but much rather to open up an imaginary of what the work might mean for dogs,
cats, birds, trees, and in doing so, to try to decentralize one’s own position and think about what a human made urban space might be like for others. We don’t really need to smell it to create a fiction of what it means, or what we think it means. This work is talking about wolves, dogs, humans and their interrelationship going back far in history. But more importantly, it’s about a bigger sense of belonging, domestication, interspecies relations, labour, distribution of space, empathy, …
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