Midnight Zone

Artists

Julian Charrière

Press release

A core concern of French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière is how the human being inhabits the world, and how it in turn inhabits us. In a comprehensive solo exhibition, Museum Tinguely presents photographs, sculptures, installations and new film works that deal with our relationship to Earth as a world of water – a liquidity that covers most of our planet with seas, lakes and ice, both habitat for a myriad of organisms and host to circulatory systems critical for the stability of our climate. The exhibition Midnight Zone engages with these underwater ecologies, from the local influential presence of the Rhine to distant oceans, exploring the complexity of water as an elemental medium affected by anthropogenic debilitation. Reflecting upon its flow and materiality, profundity and politics, its both mundane and sacral dimensions, the solo show acts as a kaleidoscope, inviting us to dive deep.