{"id":15492,"date":"2025-10-22T11:29:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/vikram-goyal-turns-indias-ancient-animal-fables-into-a-scented-landscape-in-paris\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:29:40","slug":"vikram-goyal-turns-indias-ancient-animal-fables-into-a-scented-landscape-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/vikram-goyal-turns-indias-ancient-animal-fables-into-a-scented-landscape-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"vikram goyal turns india\u2019s ancient animal fables into a scented landscape in paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wow wow-yellow\">vikram goyal\u2019s soul garden at design miami\/paris 2025<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the lush gardens of L\u2019H\u00f4tel de Maisons, once the Parisian home of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/karl-lagerfeld\/\"><strong>Karl Lagerfeld<\/strong><\/a>, designer Vikram Goyal unveils The Soul Garden, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/interactive-installation\/\"><strong>installation<\/strong><\/a> that transforms India\u2019s ancient animal fables into a living, multisensory landscape. Presented by The Future Perfect for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/art-basel-paris-design-miami-paris-2025\/\"><strong>Design Miami\/Paris 2025<\/strong><\/a>, the project, on view from October 21st to 26th, 2025, bridges <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/sculpture\/\"><strong>sculpture<\/strong><\/a>, craft, design, and olfactory art in collaboration with Berlin-based artist Sissel Tolaas, who translates the invisible language of scent into a medium of storytelling and emotion.<\/p>\n<p>all images by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alfredo_piola\/\">Alfredo Piola<\/a>, unless stated otherwise<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wow wow-yellow\">a sanctuary of spirit, memory, and craft<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Soul Garden reimagines India\u2019s timeless reverence for animals as vessels of wisdom and guardianship. The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soulgardenproject.com\/\">installation<\/a><\/strong> gathers five sculpted creatures, the Tiger (Vyaghra), the Elephant and Baby Elephant (Gaja and Karabha), the Tortoise (Kurma), and the Crocodile (Nakra), crafted through the <a href=\"https:\/\/vikramgoyal.com\/en\/\"><strong>New Delhi-based designer<\/strong><\/a> Vikram Goyal\u2019s signature repouss\u00e9 and hollowed joinery metal techniques. <em>\u2018In India, animals are more than instinct, they are sacred, sentient, divine. Many embody essential virtues \u2013 strength, wisdom, loyalty, tranquillity,\u2019 <\/em><strong>notes<\/strong> <strong>Goyal.<\/strong><em> \u2018This recognition of their spiritual equivalence has led to their protection and veneration for centuries.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Each animal encapsulates a moral dimension drawn from the Panchatantra, a 2,000-year-old collection of Sanskrit fables that uses animal protagonists to teach lessons in empathy, prudence, and coexistence. Within the sculptures, hidden repouss\u00e9 panels reveal miniature narrative scenes inspired by these tales. Collectively, they form a contemporary bestiary, one that fuses India\u2019s sculptural heritage with the animaliers of 20th-century Europe, such as Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Lalanne and Rembrandt Bugatti.<\/p>\n<p>Vikram Goyal unveils The Soul Garden in the lush gardens of L\u2019H\u00f4tel de Maisons<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wow wow-yellow\">Sissel Tolaas translates the animal world through scent<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For Goyal, scent became the natural language of the animal world and the essential dimension of The Soul Garden. To realize this idea, he invited Sissel Tolaas, renowned for her pioneering work in olfactory research and art, to create a smellscape that would bring emotional depth to the installation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018For animals, smell is their primary language; it\u2019s how they find food, recognise kin, warn of danger and even express emotion,\u2019 <\/em><strong>says Goyal.<\/strong><em> \u2018Scent is a story, and in order to be true to the intelligence of animals, The Soul Garden needed to speak in this invisible but powerful register. That\u2019s why I turned to Sissel Tolaas.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tolaas, who describes smell molecules as \u2018the alphabet of the air,\u2019 visited Goyal\u2019s studio in New Delhi to collect molecular samples during the metalworking process. She also recorded scent profiles from real animal habitats and interactions, synthesizing each species\u2019 olfactory signature. Using a combination of nanotechnological and analog diffusion devices embedded in the sculptures and surrounding grasses, these molecular blends subtly fill the garden with layered fragrances.<em> \u2018To engage with The Soul Garden through smell is to unlock an encounter infused with emotion, play and vulnerability,\u2019 <\/em><strong>shares Tolaas.<\/strong><em> \u2018And without an emotional reaction, there can be no action.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>an installation that transforms India\u2019s ancient animal fables into a living, multisensory landscape<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wow wow-yellow\">Between myth and memory<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Visitors of the Soul Garden are encouraged to sit among the sculptures, read, or simply breathe in the layered scents. Each evening at 5 pm, students from Cours Florent, Paris\u2019s renowned performing arts school, will perform readings from the Panchatantra, animating its fables of wit and morality, the Lion and the Hare, the Monkey and the Crocodile, the Tortoise and the Birds, with renewed voice and presence. As a symbolic gesture, talismans will be offered to visitors, inviting them to become caretakers of the animals, acknowledging a shared duty of guardianship toward both mythic and living beings.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Through the fusion of sculpture, scent, and story, The Soul Garden emerges as a fable for the present moment\u2014an appeal for empathy, ecology, and coexistence amid an age of disconnection. \u2018<em>It reinterprets Indian animal fables not as relics of the past but as blueprints for future thinking \u2013 about empathy, ecology, and coexistence,\u2019<\/em> <strong>says Goyal.<\/strong> <em>\u2018By entering this living fable, each visitor leaves not only with a story, but a renewed role in the wider web of life.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>presented by The Future Perfect for Design Miami\/Paris 2025<\/p>\n<p>on view from October 21st to 26th | image by <a href=\"https:\/\/alimonisnaqvi.com\/\">Ali Monis Naqvi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>bringing together sculpture, craft, design, and olfactory art | image by Ali Monis Naqvi<\/p>\n<p>reimagining India\u2019s timeless reverence for animals as vessels of wisdom and guardianship | image by Ali Monis Naqvi<\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- CLOSE ARTICLE CONTENT --><\/p>\n<div class=\"fullwidth-image\">\n<div class=\"layout-box\">\n<div class=\"page-content\">\n<p>the installation gathers five sculpted creatures | image by Ali Monis Naqvi<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\t<!-- OPEN ARTICLE CONTENT -->\t<\/p>\n<p>each animal encapsulates a moral dimension drawn from the Panchatantra | image by Ali Monis Naqvi<\/p>\n<p>the animal sculptures are crafted through Vikram Goyal\u2019s signature techniques | image by Ali Monis Naqvi<\/p>\n<p>fusing India\u2019s sculptural heritage with the animaliers of 20th-century Europe | image by Ali Monis Naqvi<\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- CLOSE ARTICLE CONTENT --><\/p>\n<div class=\"fullwidth-image\">\n<div class=\"layout-box\">\n<div class=\"page-content\">\n<p>visitors of the Soul Garden are encouraged to sit among the sculptures | image by Ali Monis Naqvi\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\t<!-- OPEN ARTICLE CONTENT -->\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>project info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>name:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/soulgardenproject.com\/\">The Soul Garden<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vikramgoyalstudio\/\">@vikramgoyalstudio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>designer:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/vikramgoyal.com\/en\/\">Vikram Goyal Studio<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vikramgoyalstudio\/\">@vikramgoyalstudio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>location:<\/strong> L\u2019H\u00f4tel de Maisons, Rue de l\u2019Universit\u00e9, Paris, France<\/p>\n<p><strong>event:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/designmiami.com\/fair\/paris-2025\">Design Miami\/Paris 2025<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>collaborator:<\/strong> Sissel Tolaas (olfactory artist) | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sssl_berlin\">@sssl_berlin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>presented by:<\/strong> The Future Perfect<\/p>\n<p><strong>dates:<\/strong> October 21st\u201326th, 2025\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>photographer: <\/strong>Alfredo Piola | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alfredo_piola\/\">@alfredo_piola<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/alimonisnaqvi.com\/\">Ali Monis Naqvi<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alimonisnaqvi\/\">@alimonisnaqvi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/design\/vikram-goyal-india-ancient-animal-fables-scented-landscape-design-miami-paris-10-22-2025\/\">vikram goyal turns india\u2019s ancient animal fables into a scented landscape in paris<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/\">designboom | architecture &amp; design magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>vikram goyal\u2019s soul garden at design miami\/paris 2025 \u00a0 In the lush gardens of L\u2019H\u00f4tel de Maisons, once the Parisian home of Karl Lagerfeld, designer Vikram Goyal unveils The Soul Garden, an installation that transforms &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.7 - 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