Perfume launch: Joie noire by Tash Keddy X Jimmy Robert

Join us for a glass of bubbles after hours for the launch of Joie noire, a limited edition eau de parfum developed by artists Tash Keddy and Jimmy Robert for Artspace Aotearoa.

Tash and Jimmy developed the scent as a core component of Jimmy Robert’s recent solo exhibition Joie noire at Artspace Aotearoa, where it diffused throughout the gallery.

This limited edition eau de parfum has notes of turmeric, mastic, blood cedarwood, skatole, and white grapefruit. Joie noire diaphanously invites its wearer to embrace the fullness of lived experience: conservation, memory, desire, rejection, and resistance.

Joie noire will be available to purchase at the launch and from 2 August online and in the gallery.

This event is part of First Thursdays on Karangahape Road, which sees galleries including Artspace Aotearoa, open late alongside shops, street stalls, performances and live music on the first Thursday evening of the month.

WHAT TO EXPECT

This event is free.
This event will be held in the gallery at Artspace Aotearoa.
This location is accessible.

BIOGRAPHIES

Tash Keddy (b. 1995) is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist and perfumer who works in photography, sculpture, and installation. Working outwards from research into music, architecture, industrial objects, and clinical psychoanalytic theory, his practice questions the use-value of things, words, and ways of somatic perception. He graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts with a BFA (Hons) in 2019 and recently completed a two-year studio program at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, 2022.

Jimmy Robert was born in Guadeloupe and now lives between Berlin and Paris. He works across a range of media—including photography, sculpture, film, video, and collaborative performance—gently breaking down divisions between two and three dimensions, image and object. He studied at Goldsmiths, London, was a resident at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam and is now a professor at UdK, Berlin. He has had major solo exhibitions at, amongst others, Moderna Museet, Malmö; Centre National de la Danse, Paris-Pantin in collaboration with Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Museion, Bolzano; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; and The Power Plant, Toronto.