ART-PRESENTATION: Tatiana Trouvé-House Of Leaves

In her installations, sculptures and drawings, the Paris-based artist Tatiana Trouvé tackles the uncertain boundaries of fiction and reality, the mental and the physical, and explores notions of time, space and memory. Her works combine intricate scenographic drawings, sculptures both linear and three–dimensional, and spaces that hint at invisible dimensions.

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Galerie Perrotin Archive

Tatiana Trouvé at her solo exhibition at Galerie Perrotin in Hong Kong “House of Leaves”, presents her series “The Unremembered”,  that begun on 2013, bringing us back to memory, its deficiencies and even its loss. Forgetting means to lose the use of one’s memory and hence living in a depopulated present which the past no longer penetrates, and in which events, people, things and places are disconnected. Here, the ink on the black paper is dissolved by drips of bleach, creating patches that reveal the potential of the drawing. “The unremembered” drawings suggests spiritualist apparitions and old X-ray images. The objects that structure their spaces borrow from elements of a personal iconography involved in the creation of the artist’s work. Born in Cosenza, Italy in 1968, she later spent time living in Senegal, the Netherlands, and the South of France before moving to Paris in the mid-90s, Trouvé’s work spans drawing, sculpture and painting brought together in architecture inspired installations reminiscent of office, laboratory, retail display, warehouse or workshop spaces. She first came to international prominence via her “Bureau of Implicit Activities” (1997-2003), developed over a number of years, which preserved traces of the evolution of her art practice. Characterised by unexpected shifts in scale, casting of objects and through responsiveness to each particular site, her psychologically-charged scenes continue to evoke imagined activities and processes of material transformation, creating eerie states of suspension and an almost palpable sense of absence. Tatiana Trouvé was winner of the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2007.

Info: Galerie Perrotin, 17/F, 50 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong, Duration: 20/3-17/5/17, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, www.perrotin.com