Catching Details at the Bourse de Commerce

PHOTOGRAPHY AND WORDS Jasmine Wong

The current collections presented at the Bourse de Commerce seem to pulverize time, distilling it the moment we step into the rotonde on the ground floor. With Charles Ray holding a large section of the exhibition, it is no wonder the lack of temporality feels intrinsic throughout the museum. The artists works effectively bounce off each other in concept; from Roni Horn and Felix Gonzalez-Torres' meditative and still room of questioning identity, to that of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's room of a looping fever dream of a posessed identity. This room of illusions flows seamlessly into the more tangible hallucinations of Charles Ray's hyperrealistic sculptures, full of nostalgia. Though minimalistic, I left the Bourse de Commerce impressed by the work and curation, and moreover calmed by the experience.