Julian Charrière (born 1987 in Morges/Switzerland) lives and works in Berlin. Equipped with a wide range of artistic approaches, including photography, performance, sculpture and video, he explores the idea of ‘nature’ and its transformation over geological time and through human history. His works, which deal with pressing ecological issues, are usually the result of field research in specific locations.

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In his ongoing series ‘Digesting Geometry’, the artist causes flocks of pigeons to form abstract, ephemeral structures such as circles, triangles or rectangles by deliberately spreading food. His photographs document this intervention in everyday urban life, the public space that is used by people and pigeons alike. The intervention took place in various major cities, including Berlin, London and Paris. The orderly formation of the birds remains a fleeting choreography of limited duration; the birds are scared up repeatedly and finally disperse completely as soon as all the seeds have been eaten.

Based on the exhibited photo series from 2013, Julian Charrière has contributed his own instructions to a series of posters that publicly call for action as part of ‘(re)connecting. earth’. The artist invites the viewer to lay out their own geometric shapes with bird food in a public place where pigeons flock.