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Catalog of the exhibition "Julian Charrière: Soothsayers" held at Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, from September 15-November 27, 2021; and the exhibition "Julian Charrière: weight of shadows," at Centre Pompidou, Paris, from October 6, 2021-January 3, 2022
Text in German and English
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| Summary: | Commended as one of the greatest artists of his generation, Charrière continues to explore post-romantic constructions of ?nature,? staging tensions between geological timescales and those relating to humankind. In Soothsayers, the viewers are confronted with an installation focused on materiality and light that induces a meditative, trance-like state. By way of these sensory enhancements, they are prompted to explore the depths of their inner beings and a complex geological matrix.00Soothsayers develops Julian Charrière?s interest in disturbing collisions between earth systems and applied science (as well as hallucinatory night-club aesthetics). Through an immersive display that comprises two new sculptures, the exhibition stages visions of world(s) near and far that oscillate between Traum and trauma.00Soothsaying is the ancient art of prophecy. In the exhibition?s title piece, Charrière re-imagines one of its classic methods?divination through the reading of entrails (haruspicy)?through a poetics of stone: This major new work features a large block of coal encased within a steel plinth, as if the former had grown inside the latter?s three-dimensional grid. While its irregular shape disturbs the metal structure?s rational form, the coal lump?recalling something between tuber and tumor?also appears compressed by it. In symbolic terms (qua augury) its black mass stands for the guts of the earth. More to the point, as the grid indicates, it is modernity?s bowels; a fact that must be read more deeply if we are to extract our culture from it. To this end, Charrière?s coal bears a carved hollow, into which visitors may insert their heads. All the better to hear their own voice, or attempt to see in the dark ?00Exhibition: Dittrich & Schlechtriem Gallery, Berlin, Germany (15.09. - 27.11.2021) / Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (06.10.2021 - 03.01.2022).
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