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When a moment in Australian art history involves litigation about a sumptuous “ladies-only” lounge at Mona surrounded by a green velvet curtain and a troop of handsome semi-naked male butlers serving champagne and massages, that moment doesn’t call for selling a product. But it does call for a celebration.
 
For ladies who appeal — in this case, artist and curator Kirsha Kacheale, who led the fight to the Supreme Court — victory was sweet. And scented.

 
Since Kirsha doesn’t wear fragrance (“makes me puke”), or believe in selling anything (“it’s gauche”) or even believe in capitalism for that matter (“it’s fucked”), collaborating on making a fragrance for the Ladies Lounge re-opening to celebrate a moment in art was, …. well, not without its ironies and paradoxes.

 
And of course, Kirsha being Kirsha, that meant making a video — with a delicious serving of extra flair — of the whole thing and going the extra mile of adding hand-rolled gold-lustred ceramic caps to each bottle, lovingly crafted by Material Institute Tasmania.

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