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Metropolis Japan
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Metropolis Japan
Midnight Zone: A Solo Exhibition by Julien Charrière
The art gallery Perrotin Tokyo plunges into uncharted territory with Midnight Zone, a solo exhibition by Berlin-based French-Swiss artist Julien Charrière. Known for venturing to the edges of the Earth — volcanic craters, arctic ice fields, nuclear ruins —Charrière transforms fieldwork into poetic, multi-sensory installations. Merging photography, sculpture, video and performance, his practice reimagines how we understand nature, time and our place within it. Midnight Zone extends beyond traditional environmental art; it's a study of where human ambition meets planetary scale. Expect cross-disciplinary echoes— science, philosophy, sound —all orbiting a central question: How do we inhabit a world that increasingly defies comprehension? Charrière's work doesn't just depict the Anthropocene—it drags us into its depths. Rarely has the intersection of Earth's beauty, decay and climate urgency felt so immersive. This is an exhibition that will make you slow down—and look deeper. Open Tuesday through Saturday, 11am–7pm.
National Geographic
27-02-2025
- Science
- National Geographic
Behold the pigbutt worm, mystery of the deep
More than 90 percent of the creatures living in the ocean have yet to be described, so it's not all that surprising that scientists continue to find new species of fish, crustaceans, jellies, and sea slugs each time they venture into the ocean's deepest, darkest haunts. But sometimes they encounter a creature so strange, it defies quick categorization. Such was the case in 2001 when experts from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute piloted a remotely operated submersible to depths between 2,700 and 7,200 feet off the coast of California. It was there, in the lightless Midnight Zone, named for fact that no surface light reaches these depths, where they came face to face with a translucent, pink blob about the size of a hazelnut. 'It was bigger than most of the small particles that we see down there,' says Bruce Robison, a senior scientist at the MBARI. 'As we zoomed in on it with the camera, everybody was remarking, 'I've never seen anything like that before.''
