Bugada & Cargnel

Julian Charrière

Somehow They Never Stop Doing What They Always Did
2013
210 x 65 centimeters
Unique

In Somehow, They Never Stop Doing What They Always Did, Julian Charrière creates small constructions inside steel and glass showcases, which evoke architectural archetypes, like Babylonian or Amerindian pyramids or mythological towers, like the Babel Tower. They are built with small bricks, made of plaster, fructose and lactose, moistened with water from major rivers around the globe: the Amazon, the Euphrates, the Hudson, the Mekong, the Nile, the Rhin, the Rhône, le Rio Grande and the Yangtze. Bacteria inside the water progressively develop inside the glass case, modifying the aspect and the structure of the constuctions. Charrière therefore shows the action of the Living and Time over architecture, and sets his miniature monuments and their fast decay into History.

Julian Charrière

Somehow They Never Stop Doing What They Always Did
2013
210 x 65 centimeters
Unique

In Somehow, They Never Stop Doing What They Always Did, Julian Charrière creates small constructions inside steel and glass showcases, which evoke architectural archetypes, like Babylonian or Amerindian pyramids or mythological towers, like the Babel Tower. They are built with small bricks, made of plaster, fructose and lactose, moistened with water from major rivers around the globe: the Amazon, the Euphrates, the Hudson, the Mekong, the Nile, the Rhin, the Rhône, le Rio Grande and the Yangtze. Bacteria inside the water progressively develop inside the glass case, modifying the aspect and the structure of the constuctions. Charrière therefore shows the action of the Living and Time over architecture, and sets his miniature monuments and their fast decay into History.

Julian Charrière

Somehow They Never Stop Doing What They Always Did
2013
210 x 65 centimeters
Unique

In Somehow, They Never Stop Doing What They Always Did, Julian Charrière creates small constructions inside steel and glass showcases, which evoke architectural archetypes, like Babylonian or Amerindian pyramids or mythological towers, like the Babel Tower. They are built with small bricks, made of plaster, fructose and lactose, moistened with water from major rivers around the globe: the Amazon, the Euphrates, the Hudson, the Mekong, the Nile, the Rhin, the Rhône, le Rio Grande and the Yangtze. Bacteria inside the water progressively develop inside the glass case, modifying the aspect and the structure of the constuctions. Charrière therefore shows the action of the Living and Time over architecture, and sets his miniature monuments and their fast decay into History.