01/06/2026
Antoine Renard’s INF_WELCOME://DUNE.CODE (after Ousha bint Khalifa Al Suwaidi) is part of the current exhibition “Time That Grows Slowly” at .
The artist’s immersive, multisensory objects explore how technology, materiality, and human perception shape the circulation of memory, language, and cultural knowledge. In this work, Renard fragments a passage from Tahiyya wa Tarhib, a Nabati poem by Ousha bint Khalifa Al Suwaidi, and uses a neural network to translate its phonetic and grammatical structures into a custom bakhoor fragrance composed of traditional Emirati ingredients.
Rather than approaching the poem as a written text, the work proposes experiencing it as a coded molecular composition — one that unfolds through scent, material, and sensory perception. Through this transformation, language shifts from something read to something encountered physically, opening new ways of engaging with cultural memory and poetic heritage.