Elizabeth Renstrom Artist Talk

Elizabeth Renstrom is a Brooklyn-based artist working across photography, video, and installation. Her work creates safe yet critical spaces that use identity to examine the effects of nostalgia. In her current solo show at Olfactory Art Keller, Basenote Bitch, Renstrom synthesizes the ecstasy and agony of naive self-image, using photography and installation to reflect on all the ways we use fragrance to project and amplify who we once may have wished to be — and perhaps still secretly do. The photographs showcase iconic retro scents —particularly ones beloved by teens across generations — satirized alongside, and contextualized within, still-life homages to the bedroom scenes where they would have been showcased or hidden away in rebellion.

At this artist talk, Renstrom will discuss her practice with a focus on the Basenote Bitch project. The event is free, but space is limited and registration is required.