Corpus Opus Édition is an online art gallery and perfume project by Yaz. It brings visual art and scent into a shared experience: a photograph, a painting, or a sculpture is paired with a fragrance created in response to the work. The project grows from Yaz’s own practice and will open to collaborations with artists from around the world.
“The starting point is something I have lived, seen, or felt. A photograph lets me hold on to an instant. Sculpture lets me explore a form and its relationship with space. Travel changes the way I notice light, materials, and places. Perfume gives me another way to work with those impressions: to turn a memory into something we can wear.”
Corpus Opus Édition grew from the desire to bring these practices together and share them through a gallery. The first collection draws on Yaz’s photography, sculpture, journeys, and memories. Future collaborations will bring another artist’s work into this dialogue, with Yaz and the artist creating its accompanying fragrance together.
A street, a face, a landscape. The photograph preserves a point of view and opens the story.
Working with volume, texture, and space becomes a way to think about the shape and contrasts of a fragrance.
The freshness of water, forest shade, warm stone, or the energy of a city becomes material for an olfactory exploration.
In Clean East. Wood, laundry drying outside a painting studio in the Japanese mountains holds the scent of a forest and an artist’s daily life. Rue de la Muse begins with a summer photograph near Lake Geneva: cool water, forest shade, and the quiet of the mountains. 402 returns to skateboarding, friendship, and the freedom of youth.
Other creations grow from an encounter with art. New York Abidjan grew from conversations with Fab Five Freddy in Bali, his memories of his friend Jean-Michel Basquiat, and my artwork The Missed Flight. These connections between people, places, and art eventually became a fragrance.
Each bottle is an entrance into a work and its story. Follow it to discover the image, the experience behind it, and its olfactory interpretation. In future collaborations, the artwork and the fragrance will be presented together, crediting the artist and the shared creation with Yaz.
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Corpus Opus Édition
A new way to experience art through sight, form, and scent.
Artists from around the world will be invited to explore their work through scent. For each collaboration, Yaz and the artist will create a fragrance dedicated to the artwork, drawing on its materials, emotions, and artistic intention.
The online gallery will bring together perfumes and their associated artworks. Depending on each project, photographs, sculptures, books, wearable art, and other artistic editions will also be offered for sale alongside the fragrance.
Perfumes will be available exclusively online and through temporary pop-up exhibitions in art galleries around the world. Visitors will be able to encounter the artwork and experience the fragrance created for it in the same space.