Experimentations combining scientific methods and games with the chance of matter are the origin of manipulations used by Julian Charrière. Operating with random samples, the artist captures and domesticates the development of a variety of microorganisms and bacteria, using them as an unpredictable and volatile palette. The pieces reveal the mutations and alterations of the changing matter that is our environment, made visible by the artist who transforms these organisms into enigmatic sculptures.

Profane, the steps taken by Julian Charrière are those of a game with the living that hunts down and manipulates the rules of natural order, making the artist an architect of the forces and movements of the invisible.  Imitating the action of the demiurge, deity responsible for the creation of the universe and its organisation, the artist’s method invites itself into areas usually reserved to nature, considering that the latter can be regarded as our cultural heritage.

Julian Charrière was born in 1987 in Switzerland. He lives and works in Berlin.

The work Somehow they never stop doing what they always did by Julian Charrière benefits from the support of Pro Helvetia and the ESM, Ecole de Management et de Communication in Geneva.