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Larissa Fassler, Les Halles (2011)

January 12, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

At the very moment in which the troubled piece of Parisian urban land is being dismantled again, artist Larissa Fassler tries to preserve the “complex derelict knot of rail and Métro interchanges, subterranean retail chain stores, tunnels, and passageways that make up Les Halles today”.

Through cheap cardboard paper, the artist experiences the space of the banal, of the everyday, the shop, the mall, the passageways and the escalators.

Miniature fragments contrast, with their near-obsessive precision, the dysfunctional emptiness of derelict non-lieux.

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