Regina Mamou, b. 1983, Southfield, Michigan.
Lara Salmon, b. 1987, San Diego, California.
Both artists live and work in Los Angeles, California.
RESIDENCIES
2019
Queens Collective, Marrakech, Morocco
2018
Haven for Artists, Beirut, Lebanon
INTERVENTIONS
2020–2021
Common Fantasy / Gemeinsame Fantasie
The ADN Guardhouse at The Wende Museum of the Cold War, Los Angeles, California, & Scent-by-Mail Program
2019
Publick Spectacle
PØST’s nomadic project at MiM Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Dazzle Camouflage
Performance festival Weekend at Berenice
Flat Top Hill (Montecito Heights), Los Angeles, California
7 Actions for a Concrete-Colored Sky
Fluxus festival Cantos Comunes/Common Chants
13th Bienal de la Habana parallel program, The Blockhouse, Havana, Cuba
Geldwä$€he
SomoS Art Space, Berlin, Germany
Best Western
Queens Collective, Marrakech, Morocco
2018
contraDINE
Concept 2092 at Haven for Artists, Beirut, Lebanon
ARTIST TALKS + WORKSHOPS
2021
Episode 14: Wish You Were Here
Perfume on the Radio Podcast, Los Angeles, California
Common Fantasy – Tincture Demonstration
The Wende Museum of the Cold War, Los Angeles, California
Scent | Memory – Enfleurage Workshop
Culver City Unified School District (CCUSD) in collaboration with The Wende Museum of the Cold War, Los Angeles, California
Common Fantasy
The Wende Museum of the Cold War, Los Angeles, California
Salon for the Senses: Scent with Research for the Bermuda Triangle
Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA), Los Angeles, California
2020
Common Fantasy at the 4th Annual Experimental Scent Summit
Co-hosted by the Institute for Art and Olfaction, Los Angeles, California
and the Smell Lab, Berlin, Germany
2019
Can’t Touch This – Hydrodistillation Workshop
The Institute for Art and Olfaction, Los Angeles, California
PRESS + ESSAYS
2022
Past Present: Archaeology’s Giant Leap Onto the International Space Station
Article by Jamie Seidel for Cosmos
2021
Hvordan lugter Danmark år 2021? Hvordan lugtede DDR før murens fald? [trans. How does Denmark smell in 2021? How did the GDR smell before the fall of the wall?]
Article by Nils Thorsen for Politiken [in Danish only]
A Fragrance Bottles Up the Everyday Scents of Former East Germany
Article by Renée Reizman for Hyperallergic
2020
The Scent of East Germany in a Tincture
Article by Eddie Bulliqi for Fragrantica
2019
Meet Regina Mamou and Lara Salmon of Research for the Bermuda Triangle
VoyageLA
Geldwä$€he
Essay by Madeleine Archer, SomoS Art House, Berlin, Germany
contraDINE
Essay by Layane El Hajjar, Haven for Artists, Beirut, Lebanon