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What-Was-Imprint-by-Yuan-off-RCA©2025

Key details

Location

  • External (Overseas)
  • Two Galleries in Arles

Price

  • Free

Who can attend

  • Everyone

Type

  • Exhibition

A Multisensory Dialogue Between Contemporary Art, Material Looking and Scent as Emotional Architecture.

We are off-RCA — a collective of artists, visionaries, and sensorial architects, curating the present and composing the future.

Born from the Royal College of Art — ranked the world’s leading institution for art and design — off-RCA embodies its legacy of radical inquiry, cross-disciplinarity, and poetic experimentation.

But we go further.

We go off. Off-script. Off-grid. Off-perception.

We step into what cannot be named — what must be felt.

We believe scent is art.

Not as decoration. Not a metaphor.

But as emotional architecture — a spatial vibration, an atmospheric container in which the artwork breathes.

Exhibition Details

off-RCAの:memory
Featuring Yuan, Patricio Villanueva, Lotte Cunnell, and Misia-O’

Everything you remember — and everything you don’t.の: memory is not a recollection. It is a haunting. This chapter lingers in the space between presence and absence. Influenced by Bachelard and the fragile poetics of impermanence, memory is rendered not as narrative but as residue — scent, shadow, image, and code. Photographs melt into scent. AI dreams in fragments. A candle cradles a disappearing past.

First gallery: “Galerie Éphémère”, 24 rue de l’hôtel de Ville, 13200, Arles,France

Opening hours: 11am – 7pm

Private View: Friday 11 July, 7.30pm

off-RCA の:air
An installation by Misia-O’

This chapter breathes the quiet poetry of impermanence. Here, architecture is not built from walls, but from breath — choreographed through scented veils, suspended dust, and moving light. Inspired by Bachelard’s reveries on air and Lispector’s fluid presence in Água Viva, the installation dissolves structure into atmosphere.

Second gallery: “Galerie Apothicaire”: 46 Rue du Docteur Fanton, 13200, Arles, France

Opening hours: 1am – 7pm

Private View: Tuesday 8 July