Swiss artists Franziska Furter and Julian Charrière both explore the wild elements in their large-scale installations at NGV Triennial.
Already a subscriber?″My interest in the weather started 20 years ago in Edinburgh,” says Swiss artist Franziska Furter. “It was my first overseas residency, and I was so surprised. You wake up and it’s raining. You have a shower, the sun is shining. You have breakfast, it’s snowing. Then you go out and it’s raining again. I was super happy because it’s not just one thing for the whole day.”in the NGV Triennial, wrapping up this weekend after a blockbuster four months.
The NGV carpet, however, threatens to take the artist onto another plane. It’s not just the weather any more, it’s the big topic of “climate”.“And that worries me,” she says. The worry is that until recently, climate was a relatively neutral term, but it now suggests a lurking, apocalyptic menace. Two days after visiting Furter in her small, concrete booth in Basel, I find myself at a factory complex in Berlin, where Charrière has his headquarters. It’s not a studio per se, but a diverse series of working spaces. In one room, the artist’s assistants sit researching projects on their computers; in another, large-scale fabrications are undertaken.
My guide through the studio was Patricia Bondesson Kavanagh, who handles research and communication for Charrière Inc. In an accent with Swedish and Irish undertones, she tells me straight away that of all the countries with which they work, Australia is her favourite.
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