ART–CON–TRO
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Tatiana Trouvé
Spatial Construction
Geometry organizing spatial order.
ART–CON–TRO
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Geometry organizing spatial order.
Tatiana Trouvé
ART–CON–TRO
Geometry organizing spatial order.
Index Code:
ART–CON–TRO
Orgin:
Global
Field Notes:
drawing as architecture · memory as system · structure as dream
Defining Moment:
Early 1990s — line as structure; form became language

Tatiana Trouvé

( 
b. 1968
 )
tah-tee-ah-nah troo-vay

Trouvé built a world where drawing became architecture.

Her installations trace invisible frameworks — lines cast in metal, memory rendered in scale.

Each environment feels both precise and dreamlike, construction translated into thought.

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In her world, geometry holds time: a discipline of memory disguised as space.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Tatiana Trouvé’s work, this approach appears where accumulation records memory.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Tatiana Trouvé’s work, this approach appears where accumulation records memory.
Hard Systems
Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.
Systems of Clarity
Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.
Gesture
Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.
Structure
Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.
Space
Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.
Art
Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.
Contemporary
Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.
Sculptural Modernism
Modernist form asserts volume, mass, and spatial presence.
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Structual Relations
The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

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How are these related?
Quiet Modernism relates practices through how form is organized rather than how it appears. Connections emerge through shared structural conditions — such as repetition, constraint, spatial organization, material behavior, or duration — even when outcomes differ.

A single grouping may reflect multiple overlapping structural concerns.
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