Tatiana Trouve
26 Oct - 16 Dec 2006
BISCHOFF/WEISS is pleased to present Tatiana Trouvé's first solo
exhibition in the UK curated by Sebastien Delot and part of
Paris Calling: A Season of Contemporary Art From France.
When venturing into Tatiana Trouve's world, it is important to bare in
mind that "everything is a question of scale and point of view". A
cosmopolitan artist with a unique background, Trouve personifies the
cultural crossroads: Italy, Africa, The Netherlands, and France all are
"ghosts" that haunt her imagination. For nearly ten years, Tatiana
Trouve's work has been an ever-expanding architectural laboratory.
Meeting challenges with verve, the artist based her first project on
unproductivity. Her Bureau d'Activites Implicites (Bureau of Implicit
Activities) playfully mocks bureaucracy: the B.A.I. is composed of
Modules, whose exact purpose is unclear but seems to involve
producing and monitoring activity, and Polders, enigmatic
microarchitectures whose changing scale prompts a redefinition of the
nature of space itself.
Tatiana Trouve creates spaces which help the works emerge; she builds
and patches together her installations intuitively. She questions our
memery of places and objects, and delights in seeing their meaning
waver. Her installations are "mental spaces", drawings in spaces that
change according to their surrounding context.
Through reduction, amplification, and displacement, Trouve helps
objects regain their fictional potential. Artists who have been important
to her include Eva Hesse, Cady Noland and particularly Alighiero e
Boetti, whose work continually rejoices in the back-and-forth between
mental and physical spaces the instantaneous and the continuous,
between language and form.
Beyond visible material, Trouve shapes and sculpts memory by
unearthing the contradictions inherent to spaces and objects. What is at
stake is not much bringing to the surface that which has not yet
emerged, but rather becoming aware of that which hovers as pure
possibility. Tatiana Trouve continuallys sets contradictions against one
another. As the poet Joseph Brodsky said, objects make the infinite
intimate.
Born in Italy in 1968, Tatiana Trouvé lives and works in Paris. A
prominent figure in the contemporary art scene, her work has been
shown at numerous prestigious institutions including the Palais de
Tokyo, Paris (2006/ solo show 2002), the Museum of Contemporary Art
of Geneva (2004) and the 50th Venice Biennale at the Arsenale (2003).
In 2007, she will have a solo show at the Palais de Tokyo, a solo show
at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vitry and will be part of 'Air de
Paris', a group show at the Centre Pompidou, curated by Christine
Macel.
exhibition in the UK curated by Sebastien Delot and part of
Paris Calling: A Season of Contemporary Art From France.
When venturing into Tatiana Trouve's world, it is important to bare in
mind that "everything is a question of scale and point of view". A
cosmopolitan artist with a unique background, Trouve personifies the
cultural crossroads: Italy, Africa, The Netherlands, and France all are
"ghosts" that haunt her imagination. For nearly ten years, Tatiana
Trouve's work has been an ever-expanding architectural laboratory.
Meeting challenges with verve, the artist based her first project on
unproductivity. Her Bureau d'Activites Implicites (Bureau of Implicit
Activities) playfully mocks bureaucracy: the B.A.I. is composed of
Modules, whose exact purpose is unclear but seems to involve
producing and monitoring activity, and Polders, enigmatic
microarchitectures whose changing scale prompts a redefinition of the
nature of space itself.
Tatiana Trouve creates spaces which help the works emerge; she builds
and patches together her installations intuitively. She questions our
memery of places and objects, and delights in seeing their meaning
waver. Her installations are "mental spaces", drawings in spaces that
change according to their surrounding context.
Through reduction, amplification, and displacement, Trouve helps
objects regain their fictional potential. Artists who have been important
to her include Eva Hesse, Cady Noland and particularly Alighiero e
Boetti, whose work continually rejoices in the back-and-forth between
mental and physical spaces the instantaneous and the continuous,
between language and form.
Beyond visible material, Trouve shapes and sculpts memory by
unearthing the contradictions inherent to spaces and objects. What is at
stake is not much bringing to the surface that which has not yet
emerged, but rather becoming aware of that which hovers as pure
possibility. Tatiana Trouve continuallys sets contradictions against one
another. As the poet Joseph Brodsky said, objects make the infinite
intimate.
Born in Italy in 1968, Tatiana Trouvé lives and works in Paris. A
prominent figure in the contemporary art scene, her work has been
shown at numerous prestigious institutions including the Palais de
Tokyo, Paris (2006/ solo show 2002), the Museum of Contemporary Art
of Geneva (2004) and the 50th Venice Biennale at the Arsenale (2003).
In 2007, she will have a solo show at the Palais de Tokyo, a solo show
at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vitry and will be part of 'Air de
Paris', a group show at the Centre Pompidou, curated by Christine
Macel.