Tatiana
Trouvé

The works of Tatiana Trouvé, winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2007, are like a labyrinth. Her paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations beckon us to intimately experience the links between place, memory and imagination. From 1997 to 2007, her work was organised around Le Bureau des activités implicites (Bureau of implicit activities, or BAI), where she set down traces of her job searches and workplace recordings, depicting an absurd, impersonal bureaucracy in a fictional visual autobiography. The BAI is divided into Modules and Polders, which are empty places (workshops, recording studios, etc.) projected into space, often on a miniature scale.

Since 2007, several series of sculptures or drawings have offered intermediate spaces that Trouvé calls "inter-worlds". Begun in 2013, the series of Dessouvenus (a Breton word for people who have lost their memory) belongs to this process, which is based on the exploration of silence and forgetting.

Trouvé's works from the Pinault Collection were first featured in 2011 at the "Eloge du Doute" (“In Praise of Doubt”) show at the Punta della Dogana in Venice.