Viewshed
About This Book
Born in Vancouver in 1975, Larissa Fassler now lives and works in Berlin. Her art examines how people and their surroundings shape each other. She begins by watching city life in person over extended periods, then turns what she sees into drawings, paintings and sculptures that chart the changes taking place in urban spaces and communities. Her subjects are crowded public places: the Gare du Nord, Les Halles and the Place de la Concorde in Paris, Columbus Circle in New York City, Taksim Square in Istanbul, and Kottbusser Tor in Berlin. Across these works she traces how city environments affect people's mental and physical health, and how the way a place is built reveals how people perceive it, understand it and use it. To gather her material, Fassler draws on methods from anthropology and urban planning. She presents her findings in large pencil drawings, paintings and sweeping installations, and condenses them into dense, layered maps. This monograph gathers a broad selection of work from roughly the last fifteen years. It includes a preface by Diana Sherlock, an interview with the artist, and essays by Fiona Shipwright, Karen Till, Shauna Janssen, Chris Blache, Pascale Lapalud and Nicole Burisch.
ISBN: 9783954764358
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