I Am Afraid, I Must Ask You to Leave
After working together during the 13th Venice International Architecture Exhibition in 2012, Julian Charrière and Julius von Bismarck teamed up to produce an ambitious multimedia project on the issue of manipulating information. The duo stirred up public opinion when they filmed majestic stone arches in a US nature reserve literally exploding. They documented this destruction in a series of large-format prints entitled We Must Ask You To Leave. Their video project showing this spectacular destruction of natural heritage went viral, and is looped in their multi-screen installation In the Real World, It Doesn’t Happen That Perfectly, which includes comments from outraged internet users on YouTube and LiveLeak. These same screens also display official media debating the authenticity of these images, leaving the audience divided between their emotional reactions and their rational deductions. Was it a real act of vandalism or fake news?
