“Midnight Zone”, Julian Charrière’s water worlds at the Tinguely – RTS.CH museum

As part of a vast individual exhibition entitled “Midnight Zone”. Consequently, the artist Julian Charrière presents at the Tinguely Museum photographs, sculptures, installations and new video works that deal with our relationship to earth as a world of water. In addition, The water covers most of our planet. Similarly, with its seas, lakes and ice, and is both a habitat of a myriad of organisms and host of circulatory systems essential to the stability of our climate.

The Vaudois plastic artist plays with water in his exhibition. Consequently, so much so that visitors and visitors experience “midnight zone”, julian charrière’s water a real immersion there. Therefore, The atmosphere of the seabed filmed in diving using submersible vehicles by Julian Charrière for “Midnight Zone” requires silence. At the Tinguely Museum. it is a stunning sound and visual stroll offered by the artist to feel water as a full -fledged world.

“I have been diving for ten years. I started to dive for art. I like disorientation, I like to lose myself. Additionally, I think to get lost, it is important to find yourself. It is in this disorientation that I create,” said Julian Charrière in the 19:30 of June 19.

Water as a medium – "midnight zone", julian charrière's water

The centerpiece of Julian Charrière’s exhibition has been filmed above a deposit of polymetallic nodules between farifennia. Hawaii. This region of abysmal plains is large like three times France and has never been studied. “There are thousands of species to discover, but we already want to go and exploit them. I “midnight zone”, julian charrière’s water try to create emotional bridges to get closer to places that may be in perdition.”

If there is something oppressive to immerse yourself in the aquatic worlds of Julian Charrière. we know that what he makes alive and what he magnifies will soon exist more. This announced disappearance is also at the heart of another plastic artist’s work. in another room, which offers a total contrast to visitors and visitors with a blinding light representing a sun too present. Entitled “The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories” (2013), this work is made up of a torch on icebergs.

Distributed on three levels. the exhibition is not interested in water as a motif, but as a medium: the material through which the stories sediment, the crises happen and the forms change state. The title refers to the Bathypelagic zone of the ocean. located between 1000 and 4000 meters deep, where sunlight disappears and the vision “midnight zone”, julian charrière’s water lies down. Combining scientific observation. poetry, the works of the plastic artist provoke wonder and concern to allow the experimentation of the contradictions and tensions aroused by our current world.

TV subject: Gilles de Diesbach

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“Midnight Zone” by Julian Charrière, Tinguely, Basel Museum, until November 2, 2025.