off-RCA Manifesto

The Future of Art Is Multisensory

We are off-RCA — a collective of artists, visionaries, and sensorial architects, curating the present and composing
the future.

Born from the legacy of the Royal College of Art — the world’s leading institution for art and design — we honour its spirit of radical inquiry, experimentation, and world-class excellence. We are led by its values:intellectual depth, artistic integrity, and fearless imagination.

But we go further.
We go off.
Off-script. Off-grid. Off-perception.
We step into what cannot be named — what must be felt.

We believe scent is art.

It is image in motion.
It is memory before language, emotion before thought.
In our curated exhibitions, scent becomes a narrative, a vibration, a synesthetic current that animates the visual, the tactile, and the spatial.
Our scents are stories. They are compositions of raw nature and raw emotion. They are invisible sculptures that connect the artwork to the soul.

Guided by the philosophies of Sontag, Bachelard, Berger, and Hegel — and by the image theory of Thomas Neal — we dissolve the boundaries between the disciplines. Photography becomes scent. Scent becomes architecture. Space becomes emotion.

Each edition is an immersive installation — a portal — curated with deep artistic rigour and emotional resonance.
We do not decorate walls.
We choreograph experiences.
We do not curate for the eye alone — but for memory, for desire, for breath, and for time.

Our vision is to grow off-RCA into the first multi-sensory art space where scent, sound, image, and atmosphere unite to create emotional landscapes that transcend medium, category, and expectation.

We invite you to inhale, to feel, to remember.
To experience art as vibration, transformation, and presence.
To step into the invisible, and emerge altered.

off-RCA
The unseen is what moves us most.

Founded by Marie Camara — artist, perfumer, and visionary behind Misia-O' (@misiaophotography), alumna of the Royal College of Art.

@off_rca