Rock
Small plates of shiny metal—aluminium, copper, brass—and Plexiglas are fixed to a rock that has washed up on the ground. The piece evokes the debris of a building on which honorary plaques have been affixed, but as no inscription is engraved on them, the composite object passes into the realm of the absurd. By alchemy, the mineral mixes with the metal, the work acting like a kind of talisman charged with an intrinsic strength and memory: according to Tatiana Trouvé, all her work is directed by “the idea of time and the theme of memory.” The artist often uses copper, a conductive material that is said to have many medicinal properties, as an agent of transmission in her works. She has attached copper or bronze locks and weights onto other stones in this series, as if the rock contained a secret of its own.
Text written by Marianne Tricoire as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
MAMCO - Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Genève, Genève (Suisse)
from 25 Jun to 21 Sep 2014
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 13 Sep to 03 Nov 2007