Tatiana Trouvé, artist,
born 1968 in Cosenza, Italy

Tatiana Trouvé lives and works in Paris and became known for her room constructions, architectonic interventions and snake-like metal sculptural objects that are seemingly solidified in their movements as if frozen. In her artwork Tatiana Trouvé often explores the association between the ‹ inner › and the ‹ outer › on both material and psychological levels. Psychological spaces are turned outwards and become concrete, uncanny ‹ inner › spaces. Tatiana Trouvé moved in the mid 1990s—via Senegal, the Netherlands and the South of France—to Paris, intending to find work and make art. The labour involved in establishing herself as a professional artist— the countless odd jobs, accumulated bursary requests, correspondence with galleries, ideas for unrealized works— led her to pose the thorny questions: What does a lack of visible productivity mean for an artist’s identity? What suffices in order to call oneself an artist? Her response materialized itself in the physical construction of a fictional « office, a storage-hold of her life … »* Awarded the prestigious Prix Ricard (2001) and Prix Marcel Duchamp (2007), Trouvé has participated in numerous exhibitions all over the world, including the Manifeta 7 in Italy (2008) and solo exhibitions in the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (2008) and in FRAC Lorraine (2008). Her work defines what the artist herself articulates as ‹ ways of world-making and ways of being in the world.›

* Vivian Rehberg: Something from nothing, decorated offices, reclaimed land, hope and anticipation, frieze magazine, Issue 115, London 2008.

Tatiana Trouvé, artist, born 1968 in Cosenza, Italy

Tatiana Trouvé, artist,
born 1968 in Cosenza, Italy