Tatiana Trouvé

Born in 1968 in Cosenza (Italy), lives in Paris.

Since 1997, Tatiana Trouvé has been producing an evolving set of works titled Le Bureau d'Activités Implicites [BAI]/The Office of Implicit Activities [OIA]. This work is today made up of a dozen Modules. Each one of these is devoted to a part of the artist's social, intellectual and imaginary work (Administrative Module, Reminiscence Module, Title Module, Archive Module, etc...) and taken as a whole they form a shell in which her life, thoughts and desires are all crystallized. The OIA operates like a kind of laboratory and acts as a matrix for all Tatiana Trouvé's projects. Among these, we find the Polderswhich, like earthworks jutting into water, occupy physical spaces and interfere with them in order to develop combinations that are above all mental. These dwarf-like forms of architecture, represented at a 1/2 scale, actually offer the artist the possibility of materializing in space, by way of ratios of scale, shortcuts and heterogeneous assemblages, operations carried out by the memory and the unconscious.

For le Printemps de septembre, Trouvé presents a Polder, which is on view in one of the rooms at Les Abattoirs. Within one and the same space, it mixes the memory of a place and the memory of the ideas and thoughts produced by the artist in this very spot.