Zürich, November 21, 2009 until February 21, 2010




Tatjana Trouvé (born Cosenza, 1968, lives and works in Paris) works on spatial productions or metal snake-like objects caught in movement thus appearing strangely solidified, similar to a frozen situation. Her spatial productions frequently use the parameters of “inner” and “outer” working with the principle of eversion. Psychic spaces reversed to the outside and become uncanny, materialised interior spaces. Trouvé titles most of her works with the Dutch term “Polder”. This term describes a terrain reclaimed by dyking, a consolidation of land surface which previously existed subsurface made visible by the intervention of technology. This newly gained territory remains persistently under threat of being flooded over again. Thus Trouvé’s works are analogous to a visualisation of the “unconscious” constantly endangered by the insecurity of shock conditions. As a consequence her “mental landscapes” circle, module-like around subjects such as living space, memory, architecture, the construction of reality. Her drawings too can be seen in this context: at first glance the drawings appear to be classical perspectival architectural sketches, but when one examines them more precisely the fixing of the building lines continually breaks down and its interior architecture often remains equivocal.

Works by Tatjana Trouvé were last to be seen amongst others in the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (solo exhibition, 2008), in the FRAC Lorraine (solo exhibition, 2008) or at the Manifesta 7 (2008). The exhibition in the migros museum für gegenwartskunst is curated by Heike Munder in cooperation with the Kunsthaus Graz.

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