Cohene's practice explores appropriation in media arts, sculpture, and scent, reflecting on broader conversations around the production and circulation of cultural material.
[5] The 2017 project I Don't Get It was commissioned by three major Canadian institutions (The Western Front, The Rooms, and Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography) for a solo exhibition tour across Canada.
[5] Working primarily in single-channel video at that time, Cohene had already developed a methodology for creating what they call “composites”— combining common gestures, expressions, emotions, and language from a variety of actors into a single character or archetype.
[11] Building from a methodologically constructed archive they have been assembling since the 2000s,[12] Cohene has become known for their expertly edited audiovisual collages, telling oblique, strongly atmospheric stories.
[17] Cohene describes the evolution of working with scent in their practice as a way to address embodied emotions and ideas that cannot be easily translated visually.
Their work has also screened at numerous film festivals in Canada, the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Istanbul, Finland, Greece, the UK, Indonesia, and Brazil.