Julian Charrière

Blaise Adilon

Venue

URDLA Villeurbannne

Metropolitan area

Born 1987 in Morges, Switzerland.
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

In his videos, photographs and installations, Julian Charrière explores how nature has been transformed during geological periods and human history. His pieces, which often flow from field work in places with a specific geophysical identity, such as volcanoes, glaciers and underwater sites, initiate critical reflection on cultural traditions involving how the natural world is perceived, represented and engaged with. In his series of photographs Where Waters Meet, naked divers go down into the sinkholes of the underwater caves of the Yucatán Peninsula, in Mexico, called cenotes. Photographed while entering a chemocline – an interface between layers of water that do not mix –, the subjects journey deep down through the water but also into their own psyche, experiencing the “oceanic feeling”, a rare and intimate sense of being at one with nature.

Also on view at the Fagor Factories and Fourvière Museum.