Bourse de Commerce II - 9h, 2024
Pen and pencil crayon on paper
107 X 117 cm

While exploring Paris during a residency at the Musée d’Orsay in September 2023, Fassler was drawn to the circular form of the Bourse de Commerce and the orbital flows it generates at the western entrance of the Forum des Halles. Her new series consists of ten works, each capturing a different hour and temperature of the day, much like Monet’s approach to depicting the Rouen Cathedral.

Without relying on a pre-existing architectural plan, Fassler mapped out this urban space by counting her own steps, using them as scaled markers of her body in motion. She traced the paths taken by pedestrians in blue or red pen, marking stops with crosses. Shadows, rendered in shades of blue, beige, and warm yellow, evoke the intense heat and bright dazzling light of those days. Central themes of the eye, the sun, orbit, and eclipse are amplified by wallpaper behind the drawings, reproducing an interior view of the glass roof of the Bourse de Commerce.