Tatiana Trouve

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. own art

Tatiana Trouve