New film with Simon Daniel Tegander Wenzel: Exploring scent, memory and place

Artica Svalbard is pleased to share a new short film featuring Norwegian artist and musician Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel, who was in residence at Artica Svalbard during the summer of 2025.

The film offers an insight into Simon’s work with scent as an artistic medium. Working with olfaction, he creates scent-based compositions that connect memory, place, and personal experience. From childhood associations triggered by everyday smells, to the reconstruction of a cave through its atmosphere and minerals, his practice moves between intimate recollection and careful sensory research.

Through fieldwork, studio experiments using a perfumer’s organ, and workshops with audiences, Simon uses scent to open spaces for reflection, dialogue, and shared memory — inviting people to revisit places, moments, and parts of themselves that might otherwise remain hidden.

The film is now available to watch below.

The film was made by Tom Warner.