Julian Charrière - We Are All Astronauts “We Are All Astronauts, whose title is inspired by the writing of Buckminster Fuller,…
Julian Charrière - We Are All Astronauts
“We Are All Astronauts, whose title is inspired by the writing of Buckminster Fuller, is composed of 13 abraded world globes, which seem to be floating over a table. The globes date from 1890 to 2011, and the artist has sanded their successive and shifting geopolitical contours until their carefully drawn territories disappeared from their surfaces. To do so, he created a special, “international sandpaper” with mineral samples from all UN recognized countries, a remnant from one of his previous works, Monument – Sedimentation Of Floating Worlds (2013). The dust created by the abrasion gently settled on the table beneath the globes, creating new, yet to be defined cartographies.”