I Am Afraid, I Must Ask You to Leave
After a noted collaboration on the occasion of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012, Julian Charrière and Julius von Bismarck join forces once again to carry out an ambitious multimedia project on the question of the manipulation of information. The duo triggers a chain reaction in public opinion by filming the explosion of majestic stone arches located in a U.S. nature reserve. This destruction is documented by a series of large-format prints entitled We Must Ask You To Leave. The viral videos reporting this spectacular attack on the natural heritage are shown in a loop in the multi-screen installation In the Real World, It Doesn’t Happen That Perfectly, which also displays the outraged comments of internet users scrolling on YouTube and LiveLeak. On the same screens, official media debate the authenticity of these images, leaving the public torn between the emotional and the rational: real act of vandalism or fake news?
