Solo show
Julian Charriere: Erratic
6 Aug 2022 — 14 May 2023 at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
· San Francisco
Julian Charriere: Erratic brought together a significant body of work by the Swiss-French artist Julian Charriere at SFMOMA during 2022-23. Known for his expansive practice that spans sculpture, photography, film, and performance, Charriere investigates the entangled relationships between human civilization and the geological forces that shape our planet.
The exhibition took its title from the geological term for a rock transported far from its origin by glacial movement — a fitting metaphor for Charriere's art, which is itself marked by displacement, deep time, and the slow violence of environmental transformation. Works in the show drew on the artist's expeditions to remote and extreme landscapes, from volcanic islands to Arctic ice fields, confronting viewers with the sublime indifference of nature and the indelible marks left by human activity.
Erratic offered San Francisco audiences a rare opportunity to engage with one of the most compelling voices in contemporary art addressing ecological and geological themes.
The exhibition took its title from the geological term for a rock transported far from its origin by glacial movement — a fitting metaphor for Charriere's art, which is itself marked by displacement, deep time, and the slow violence of environmental transformation. Works in the show drew on the artist's expeditions to remote and extreme landscapes, from volcanic islands to Arctic ice fields, confronting viewers with the sublime indifference of nature and the indelible marks left by human activity.
Erratic offered San Francisco audiences a rare opportunity to engage with one of the most compelling voices in contemporary art addressing ecological and geological themes.
About the artist
Julian Charrière
1987
Julian Charrière is a French-Swiss conceptual artist, currently living and working in Berlin. He uses several artistic approaches including photography, performance, sculpture, and video, to address concepts relating to time and human's relationship to the natural world.
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
· San Francisco
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over…
