JULIAN CHARRIÈRE

Julian Charrière (Switzerland, b. 1987) is known for a research-based practice rooted in geology, biology, physics, history, and archaeology. He frequently travels to some of the most remote regions of the planet to explore how human civilization and the natural landscape are inextricably linked. Drawing on ideas about ephemerality, the passage of time, and humankind’s attempts to dominate the environment, his oeuvre incorporates extensive techniques and media, including photography, sculpture, video, intervention, and installation. Charrière currently lives and works in Berlin

For the exhibition, his iconic and haunting video work, ‘And Beneath it all Flows Liquid Fire’—a rococo apocalyptic vision of molten magma flowing from an elegant fountain has been installed at a larger-than-life scale. Alluding to the origins of Earth, the violence of creation and destruction as well as our current climate crisis, the boiling point where we find ourselves, the audiovisual experience envelops and overwhelms the viewer.