Where Waters Meet, 2019

In Where Waters Meet, naked free divers descending into the abyss of aquatic caves in Mexico, known as Cenotes, are captured. As the divers’ bodies penetrate a chemocline—an obscure and uncanny layer of bottom water full of sulphurous bacteria—they are dissolving both in pictorial and metaphorical terms and are sinking not only deeper towards the bottom of the sea but also into their psyche, entering a state of being one with their surroundings, which is often referred to as “oceanic feeling.”

All works by Julian Charrière. Images: ©The Artist / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.