ART CITIES: Paris-Julian Charrière

Julian Charrière in his work uses many different means of expression: installations, photography, performance art and video to explore how our contemporary societies relate to their ecosystem in the Anthropocene era. Combining art and environmental science, his work highlights the tensions driving the relationships between humans and nature. Julian Charrière decided to make carbon the focus of his project for the Prix Marcel Duchamp. The artist explores the memory and transformations of this element, whether in the form of coal, millennia-old bubbles of CO2 released by melting ice, or diamonds used for oil drill heads, on land and in the skies. Thus, he creates an environment that includes catastrophe and rebirth at the same time, which is extremely interesting and special not because it impresses through the colors he chooses for the environment, but because it contains fragments from the past and the future of humanity, with soft and flexible elements that they seem to spring from our cultural consciousness, so the differences are eventually equated. -Efi Michalarou

Photo: Julian Charrière, Prix Marcel Duchamp, 2021, Centre Pompidou Paris, Photo: © & Courtesy Efi Michalarou

Info: Curator: Phillipe Bettinelli, Centre Pompidou, Place Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France, Duration: 6/10/2021-3/1/2022, Days & Hours: Mon & Wed-Sun 11:00-21:00, www.centrepompidou.fr