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Breathing two-billion-year old air: MONA’s Hard Core is an artistic journey through deep time

The Conversation · 🇦🇺 public Australia · · 853 words · By Hannah Moore
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A volcanologist describes the 'Hard Core' exhibition by artist Julian Charrière at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA). The article explores how the installation uses geological materials and scientific processes to reflect on humanity's impact on the Earth's deep time.

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What happened

The structure of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is cut directly into Hobart’s Berriedale Peninsula – walls carved from roughly 250-million-year-old sandstone that formed when Tasmania was still part of the supercontinent Gondwana.

Why it matters

It’s the perfect setting for Berlin-based French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière’s latest exhibit, Hard Core.

Common ground

It is about how we humans fit into deep time, and how we dig up, reshape and use rocks that took millions of years to form.

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A volcanologist describes the 'Hard Core' exhibition by artist Julian Charrière at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA). The article explores how the installation uses geological materials and scientific processes to reflect on humanity's impact on the Earth's deep time.

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Claim 1: “Breathe (2026), a permanent installation that opened with Hard Core”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that 'Breathe' (2026) is a permanent installation that opened alongside the 'Hard Core' exhibition at MONA.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The suffix -core is a term used to refer to visual styles and trends. The term later became associated with internet slang. Originating from the hardcore punk genre, the term gained broader prominence…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Core or cores may refer to:
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Core is a 2003 American science fiction disaster film directed by Jon Amiel with screenplay written by Cooper Layne and John Rogers and starring Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley …
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Claim 2: “Soothsayer (2021), is a large lump of coal held at eye level, in a steel scaffold, with a cavity that’s big enough for a human head”
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Claim 3: “Berlin-based French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière’s latest exhibit, Hard Core”
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Multiple web search results confirm Julian Charrière is a Berlin-based French-Swiss artist and that he has an exhibition titled 'Hard Core' at MONA.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 5, 2026 ... on view @julian.charriere. Julian Charrière HARD CORE MONA-Museum of Old and New Art @monamuseum 06. Jun 2026–29 Mar, 2027
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web search NEUTRAL — The sprawling museum is currently home to French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière's exhibition, Controlled Burn. Controlled Burn is just the latest in the Berlin ...
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web search NEUTRAL — Julian Charrière (1987), is a French-Swiss artist based in Berlin, Germany, whose work bridges the realms of environmental science and cultural history.
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Claim 4: “Thickens, pools, flows, rushes, slows (2020) is a striking sculpture made from shards of obsidian”
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Claim 5: “In Atlas (2025), a Precambrian stromatolite is slowly polished into a sphere by rotating grinders”
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Claim 6: “A Stone Dream of You (2024) features sculptures made from real volcanic lava bombs and polished obsidian spheres”
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Claim 7: “It draws on the ancient rocks of the Pilbara in Western Australia, home to some of the world’s largest banded iron formations”
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Multiple web sources confirm that the Pilbara region in Western Australia is known for its significant iron ore formations.
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web search NEUTRAL — Traditionally, the age of iron ore formation in the Pilbara was inferred from surrounding sediments, volcanic layers, or regional geological events. Those methods are useful, but they assume the iron …
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web search NEUTRAL — That timeline now ties the world’s richest iron deposits to specific pulses of supercontinent breakup, giving explorers a much clearer playbook for where to look next. The scale is hard to grasp.
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web search NEUTRAL — The web content details the geological history and significance of Australia's iron ore formations, particularly in the Pilbara region, and their impact on the country's economy and mining industry.
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Claim 8: “A reactor and electrolyser (developed with scientists) releases oxygen locked in the rocks into a circular chamber”
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Web search results for the installation 'Breathe' describe it as releasing oxygen molecules trapped inside banded iron ore formations, which aligns with the claim of using a process to release oxygen into a chamber.
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Claim 9: “The first work is Not All Who Wander Are Lost (2019). It shows four glacial erratics”
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The search results for this claim returned general information about the name 'Julian' and the Tolkien quote, but no specific evidence regarding a 2019 work by Julian Charrière titled 'Not All Who Wander Are Lost' featuring glacial erratics.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Julian is a common male given name in the United States, Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands (as Juliaan), France (as Julien), Italy (as Giuliano), Russia [Iulian (Yulian)] …
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Claim 10: “The structure of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is cut directly into Hobart’s Berriedale Peninsula”
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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is located within the Moorilla winery on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the fourth-largest museum in the world and the largest art mus…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the prese…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is an art museum located within the Moorilla winery on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest privately funded museum in the So…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Old_and_New_Art
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Claim 11: “The boulders, roughly waist to chest high, were all collected from the same Swiss valley”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "All that glitters is not gold" is an aphorism stating that not everything that looks precious or true turns out to be so. While early expressions of the idea are known from at least the 12th–13th cen…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Not All [Those] Who Wander Are Lost, or similar may refer to: The second line of J. R. R. Tolkien's poem "The Riddle of Strider" from The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954. Not All Who Wander Are Lost (al…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Not All Who Wander Are Lost is the third solo album by American virtuoso mandolinist Chris Thile. It was released on Sugar Hill in 2001. The record builds on his previous work in that it is largely b…
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Claim 12: “walls carved from roughly 250-million-year-old sandstone that formed when Tasmania was still part of the supercontinent Gondwana”
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While Wikipedia confirms the existence of MONA and the supercontinent Gondwana, the provided evidence does not mention the specific geological composition or age of the museum's walls.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Avalonia was a microcontinent in the Paleozoic era. Crustal fragments of this former microcontinent are terranes in parts of the eastern coast of North America: Atlantic Canada, and parts of the East …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Caledonian orogeny was a mountain-building cycle recorded in the northern parts of the British Isles, the Scandinavian Caledonides, Svalbard, eastern Greenland and parts of north-central Europe. T…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gondi (Gōṇḍī, IPA: [ɡoːɳɖiː]) or Gond people, who refer to themselves as "Kōītōr" (Kōī, Kōītōr, IPA: [koː.iː, koː.iː.t̪oːr]), are an ethnolinguistic group in India. Their native language, Gondi, b…
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Claim 14: “These began forming around 2.4 billion years ago during the Great Oxidation Event”
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web search NEUTRAL — Stage 3 (1.85–0.85 Ga): O2 starts to gas out of the oceans, but is absorbed by land surfaces. No significant change in oxygen level. Stages 4 and 5 (0.85 Ga – ...
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web search NEUTRAL — The Great Oxidation Event occurred approximately 2.4 to 2.1 billion years ago, during the Paleoproterozoic Era. During this time atmospheric oxygen levels increased dramatically compared to previous g…
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Claim 15: “Hard Core is showing at MONA until March 29, 2027”
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