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Julian Charrière: After the Smoke Cradle

The three subjects oscillate between light and dark and refer to the landscapes Charrière explored while climbing various volcanos for his sound work Stone Speakers. The artist took stone samples on site, which were later pulverised in the studio and used as pigments in his works. Thus, two forms of presence meet on each sheet: the photographic image and the material trace of the place itself. The distance between landscape and representation is eliminated. The place appears both as a motif and as the material essence that carries the image. Volcanic rock thus becomes the medium - the landscape inscribes itself directly into the work.