Document:Q11884
From Rhizome Artbase
Sniff, simulating the visceral satisfaction of reality’s responsiveness and dynamism, is an exploration of engagement, and of relationships created by one’s presence in an environment. The experience is very familiar yet strange, leading us to re-examine notions we take for granted. Dog’s behavior externalizes the process of assessment, evaluation and testing we perform every time anything new enters in the scope of our experience. Sniff has us unwittingly enter into an exchange simply by following the basic instinct of stopping and looking at something that is paying attention to us. A tension is produced by a mixture of fears and expectations, curiosity and interest.