Artist Talk: Julian Charrière

Join us for an artist talk and conversation with Julian Charrière, whose exhibition Erratic is currently on view on Floor 7. Revealing layers of artistic and scientific approaches to the polar regions and endangered glacial environments, the artist places his major video installation Towards No Earthly Pole (2019) in the context of ideas of nature and its transformation over deep geological as well as human historical time. Addressing pressing matters of ecological concern, his work frequently stems from fieldwork in remote locations with acute geophysical identities, such as volcanoes, ice fields, oil palm plantations, and undersea and radioactive sites. An ongoing reflection upon the mythos and politics of exploration in a globalized age is central to his practice.

Charrière will be in conversation with Jodi Roberts, co-founder of Art+Climate Action, a San Francisco Bay Area collective dedicated to building a sustainable art world. This event is presented in partnership with Swissnex in San Francisco.

About the Speakers

Julian Charrière is a French-Swiss artist living and working in Berlin. On a speculative quest into the realm of science and cultural history, Charrière seeks with his project to deconstruct the arbitrary frameworks that have come to define our changing ideas of “nature”, from the othering of Romanticism to the overextended Anthropocene. Working across media and conceptual paradigms, Charrière frequently collaborates with composers, scientists, engineers, art historians, and philosophers. His work both provokes and invites critical reflection on the cultural traditions of perceiving, representing, and engaging with the natural world. By staging interventions in the ambiguous territories between mysticism and materiality, Charrière’s work foregrounds the fraught relationship we have with place today.

Jodi Roberts is the co-founder and managing director at Art+Climate Action (A+CA). At A+CA, she leads the development of climate action plans for Bay Area institutional partners, connecting museums and galleries with resources available from government agencies, foundations, and local nonprofits to facilitate sustainability-focused practices. Roberts also has more than a decade of experience as a curator and art historian, with positions at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Stanford’s Cantor Art Center, and Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery. She holds a PhD from New York University in the History of Art and Architecture and has published widely on modern and contemporary art.

 
Accessibility Information:

Accessible seating is available at this event.

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