Tatiana Trouvé (born 4 August, 1968) is a French-

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visual artist based in

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. She works on large-scale installations,

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, and drawings. Her artwork contemplates "the uncertain boundary between fiction and reality, the mental and the physical, as well as time, space, and memory."https://www.artnet.com/artists/tatiana-trouv%C3%A9/ In 2020, Trouvé was awarded France's Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her contribution to French culture.

Early life and education

Born in

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to an Italian mother and a French father, Trouvé spent her early childhood in Italy. From ages 8 to 15 she lived in

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, where her father taught

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

. After studying at the Villa Arson in

Nice Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

, where she graduated in 1989, she spent two years in residence at De Ateliers (formally Atelier '63) in the

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, where she studied under Stanley Brouwn, before eventually settling in Paris in 1995. In Paris, she worked briefly as a guard at the

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. During her education, she learned about the works of

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, Edward Kienholz, Lousie Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha,

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, and

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, and was drawn to their invention of forms, concepts, and ideas that "depart dfrom concrete experience". She also finds influence in writers, often incorporating their language into her artworks. Some examples include Fernando Pessoa,

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, and

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Notable series

Sculpture series

(1997–2007) ''Bureau d'activités implicites''

The ''Bureau d'activités implicites (Bureau of Implicit Activities)'' was produced over the course of ten years from 1997 to 2007. The project began when Trouvé reflected on her legitimacy as an artist despite her lack of resources, visibility, and a growing collection of employment rejection letters. Compiling CVs, job application materials, identification papers, preparatory drawings, written texts, office supplies, and more, Trouvé began the production of the ''Bureau d'activités implicites'' which developed into 13 'modules', archiving the development of her career as an artist. Through the creation of these architectural modules, Trouvé constructed an administrative space to house her creative efforts as well as her clerical attempts to adherence to the red tape of the art world. Notable modules include the ''Reminiscence Module'' (1999), ''Secrets & Lies'' (2003), the ''Archive Modules'', and the ''Administrative Module'' (1997–2002). The administrative module is the most significant of this work, as it regroups all the documents that attest to her life in social and administrative terms (CV, grant applications, cover letters, job applications...).

(2000–Ongoing) ''Polders''

Since 2000, Trouvé has been constructing maquettes, or doll houses, which emerge from the universe of "implicit activities" that comprise her series ''

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s''. The series title refers to the Dutch term for land reclaimed by water. These large-scale maquettes take the form of deserted workplaces, recording studios, or unoccupied desks, often viewable from windows or mirrors preventing physical accessibility to the space. They represent that which has always been there, waiting to be recuperated or reorganized. Placed on the ground or fixed to the wall, these items adapt themselves to the physical exhibition space, and at the same time they suggest the existence of a different space or environment. These ''Polders'' look to occupy the space to parasite it. "It is with the goal of reconstructing the spaces in which I had been or in which something happened: reconstructions of space, of memory, in the form of maquettes" — Tatiana Trouvé.

Drawing series

(2005–Ongoing) ''Intranquillity''

The ''Intranquillity'' series includes approximately forty works. Using source images from her archive of architectural and design magazines and her own photographs, Trouvé creates liminal environments reminiscent of a proposed architecture but denying its concrete structure. Composed of industrial and domestic objects and lacking a true interior or exterior, the drawings are meant to exist within the fringe of reality and time, leaving the viewer to oscillate between grounded renderings and disorienting picture planes. The title of this series comes from the invented word by Fernando Pessoa. As Trouvé defines it, the word means, "not being tranquil but not being annoyed either".

(2020) From March to May

''From March to May'' was executed during the first

COVID-19 lockdown During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of non-pharmaceutical interventions, particularly lockdowns (encompassing stay-at-home orders, curfews, quarantines, and similar societal restrictions), were implemented in numero ...

in March and April 2020. The series features 56 drawings atop the front pages of newspapers from all around the world with texts that recount the globalized anxiety of the pandemic. Trouvé adorns these surfaces with drawings informed by the layout of the page. The common imagery found within Trouvé's drawings invites contemplation and mediates the unease found within the text underneath. The work is presented as a set of 56 drawings and was displayed at Gagosian Gallery in 2021 and the

in 2022.

Recognition

* (2024) Kistefos Sculpture of the year * (2020) Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres * (2019) Rosa Schapie Kunstpreis * (2014) ACACIA Prize * (2007) Prix Marcel Duchamp Prize * (2005) ISCP Residency * (2001) Foundation Pernod Ricard Prize * (1990) Atelier 63', Haarlem, Netherlands

Collections (selected)

Public collections

* By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China * Collection CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France. * FAMM: Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins, France. * FNAC Fonds national d'art contemporain (CNAP), Paris, France. * Fond Cantonal d'Art contemporain de Geneva, Switzerland * Fonds Départemental d'Art Contemporain du Val de Marne (MAC VAL), Vitry-sur-Seine, France. * Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, France. Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France. * Frac Limousin, Limoges, France. Frac Provence-Alpes-Côtes d'Azur, Marseille, France. * Frac Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France. * He Art Museum, Shunde, China. *

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, Washington D.C. * Kistefos, Jevnaker, Norway. * MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland. * MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy. * Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland. * Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. * Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France. * Musée Régional d'Art Contemporain, Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France. * MUSEION Museum of modern and contemporary art, Bolzano, Italy. * Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy. * Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico. * Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX. * Red Brick Museum, Beijing, China. *

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, New York. * Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland.

Private foundations

* CIAC Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel, Mexico City, Mexico. * Collection Pinault – Bourse de Commerce, Paris, France. * Fondation d'entreprise Louis Vuitton, Paris, France. * FWA Fondation For Women Artists, Antwerp, Belgium. * Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France.

Exhibitions (selected)

* 1997: ''Tatiana Trouvé'', Centre national d’art contemporain de la Villa Arson, Nice, France. * 2002: ''Polders'', curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérome Sans,

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, Paris, France. * 2003: ''Aujourd'hui, hier, ou il y a longtemps'', curated by François Poisay, CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France. * 2003: ''Clandestini / Clandestines'', curated by Francesco Bonami, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. * 2004: ''Juste assez coupable pour être heureuse'', curated by Christian Bernard, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland. * 2005: ''Djinns'', curated by Sylvie Boulanger, Cneai,

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, France. * 2006: ''Printemps de septembre'', curated by Jean-Marc Bustamante and Pascal Pic, Les Abattoirs,

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, France. * 2006: ''La Force de l'Art'',

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, Paris, France (

Ricard Prize The Ricard Prize (or Prix Ricard S.A.) was founded in 1999 and in 2006 its name changed to Prix Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard. The prize is awarded each year during the Parisian art fair FIAC by a committee of French collectors (friends of the ...

). * 2007: ''Times Snares'', Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, United States. * 2007: ''Think with the Senses – Feel with the mind,'' 52nd Biennale de Venice, Arsenale, Venice, Italy. * 2007: ''Double Bind'', curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler,

, Paris, France. * 2007: ''Tatiana Trouvé'', curated by Eric Magion, Centre national d'Art contemporain de la Villa Arson, Nice, France. * 2008: ''Density of Time'', König Galerie,

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, Germany. * 2008: ''4 between 3 and 2'', curated by Jean-Pierre Boraz,

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, Paris, France ( Marcel Duchamp Prize 2007). * 2009: ''A Stay between Enclosure and Space'', Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland. * 2010: ''Il Grande Ritratto'',

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, Austria. * 2010: ''Tatiana Trouvé'', South London Gallery, London, England. * 2010: ''Tatiana Trouvé'', Gagosian, New York City, NY, United States. * 2011: ''Éloge du doute'', Punta della Dogana, François Pinault Foundation,

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, Italy. * 2013: ''I cento titoli in 36 524 giorni (The hundred titles in 36,524 days)'', Gagosian, Rome, Italy. * 2014: ''L'Écho le plus long (The Longest Echo)'', MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland. * 2015: Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France. * 2015: ''Studies for Desire Lines'', Gagosian, Park and 75, New York, NY, United States. * 2015: ''Desire Lines'', Public Art Fund commission. Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, United States. * 2016: ''From Alexandrinenstrasse to the Unnamed Path'', König Galerie, Berlin, Germany. * 2016: ''L'Éclat de L'Absence'', Red Brick Museum, Beijing, China. * 2017: ''BIENALSUR'', Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de América del Sur,

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, Argentina. * 2017: Yokohama Triennale,

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, Japan. * 2017: ''A Good Neighbor'',

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, Turkey. * 2017: ''Avalanche'', ''Elevation 1049'', Gstaad, Switzerland. * 2018: ''The Great Atlas of Disorientation'', Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel. * 2018: ''Le Numerose Irregolaritá'', Villa Medici, Rome, Italy. * 2018: ''Tatiana Trouvé'', Gagosian, Rome, Italy. * 2019: ''On the Eve of Never Leaving'', Gagosian,

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, CA, United States. * 2021: ''The Residents'', Afterness,

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, Orford Ness,

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, UK. * 2021: ''From March to May'', Gagosian, New York, NY, United States. * 2022: ''Le grand atlas de la désorientation'',

, Paris, France.

Bibliography

* Trouvé, Tatiana. Tatiana Trouvé: Récits, rêves et autres histoires. Paris: ENSBA. 2023. * Criqui, Jean-Pierre and Hoptman, Laura, ''Tatiana Trouvé.'' ''The Great Atlas of Disorientation'', Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2022. * Trouvé, Tatiana. ''From March to May''. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2021. * Trouvé, Tatiana. "From March to May" in Brooklyn Rail (September 2021), as part of section "How Long Is Now?" guest edited by Francesca Pietropaolo: https://brooklynrail.org/2021/09/criticspage/From-March-to-May * Maor, Hadas. ''Tatiana Trouvé: The Great Atlas of Disorientation''. Tel Aviv: Petach Tikva Museum of Art, 2018. * Trouvé, Tatiana, Katharina Grosse, Chiara Parisi and Cecilia Trombadori. ''Tatiana Trouvé/Katharina Grosse: le numerose irregolarità''. Milan: Electa, 2018. * Berg, Stephan, Letizia Ragalia, Ellen Seifermann, Barbara Hess, Richard Shusterman, Francesca Pietropaolo, Robert Storr and Stefan Gronert. ''Tatiana Trouve: I tempi doppi''. Köln: Snoeck, 2014. * Gough, Maria, Tatiana Trouvé and Heike Munder. ''Tatiana Trouvé''. Köln: Walther König, 2011. * Pakesch, Peter, Adam Budak, Dino Buzzati, Dieter Roelstraete, Pamela M. Lee, Francesca Pietropaolo and Maria Gough. ''Tatiana Trouvé, Il Grande Ritratto''. Köln: Walther König, 2010. * Storr, Robert, Catherine Millet and Richard Shusterman. ''Tatiana Trouvé''. Köln: Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008. * During, Élie and Jean-Pierre Bordaz. ''Tatiana Trouvé: 4 between 3 and 2''. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2008. * Lamy, Frank. ''Lapsus''. Vitry-sur-Seine, France: Mac/Val, 2007. * Trouvé, Tatiana and Hans Ulrich Obrist. ''Djinns''. Chatou, France: CNEAI, 2005. * During, Élie, François Poisay and Maurice Fréchuret. ''Tatiana Trouvé: Aujourd'hui, hier, ou il y a longtemps''. Bordeaux, France : CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, 2003. * Maraniello, Gianfranco. ''Tatiana Trouvé: Polders''. Paris: Palais de Tokyo, 2002. * Boyer, Charles-Arthur and Joseph Mouton. ''Tatiana Trouvé''. Nice, France: Villa Arson, 1997.

References

External links

"Tatiana Trouvé"
by Kara L. Rooney, ''

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