This solo exhibition by Swiss-French artist Julian Charrière explores the essential connection between humanity and the planet's water systems. Visitors can experience a synesthetic blend of film, sculpture, and large-scale installations at Museum Tinguely. The works address environmental challenges, bridging local Basel river histories with the depths of the global oceans.
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This comprehensive solo exhibition by Julian Charrière explores our relationship with Earth as a world of water, ranging from local riverine histories to the vast, mysterious depths of the ocean. Through a multi-sensory blend of film, sculpture, photography, and installation, the artist investigates water as a critical, fragile medium defined by its materiality, politics, and historical memory.
Unfolding across three floors of the Museum Tinguely, 'Midnight Zone' presents an immersive reflection on the elemental power and environmental stakes of the world's oceans. The exhibition centers on water not merely as a landscape but as a core substance of existence, examining how human industrial activity and climate change interact with the planet's vast hydrological systems. Drawing on fieldwork in ecologically charged sites, Charrière’s new works, including his eponymous film, challenge conventional perspectives on the deep sea, inviting visitors to experience the ocean as a space of both scientific observation and speculative poetics. The show is deeply attuned to the local context of Basel and the Rhine river, which serves as both an infrastructural vein and a climate-sensitive artery. By incorporating sound, light, and varying physical scales, the exhibition crafts a synesthetic experience that forces a reckoning with the fragility of our biosphere. Through these intimate and often disquieting encounters, the artist probes the legacies of exploration and extraction, ultimately encouraging a more profound, visceral connection to the liquid world that sustains all life.
Admission to the museum is required to view the exhibition. Please check the official Museum Tinguely website for current ticket pricing and visitor information prior to your arrival, as no specific exhibition-only booking is required for general access during standard hours. Visitors may enjoy the accompanying film series 'The Deep' free of charge with no registration required for the events listed during the exhibition period.
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