In Montreuil, the poetic factory of Tatiana Trouvé

A little bit of Montreuil has settled in Venice. On the top floor of the Palazzo Grassi, home to the Pinault Collection, at the end of her exhibition "The Strange Life of Things" (until January 4, 2026), visual artist Tatiana Trouvé has filled a room with the objects she usually stores in the basement of her studio in the Paris suburbs.

Bronze reproductions of shoes, bags, padlocks, transistors, school soap dishes, key rings, and dried flowers. A few weeks ago, they left the studio for the lagoon. "I don't miss them," smiles the Franco-Italian artist, born in 1968. "I know they'll come back. In any case, they're the ABC of my work, my vocabulary."

Tatiana Trouvé, a leading figure in contemporary art and winner of the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2007, exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in 2022, is accustomed to accumulating all sorts of objects. She searches for some, stumbles upon others by chance. Then she makes casts, which enrich her works. Like her series of "Necklaces," fragile creations made from trinkets found in various cities: Venice, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, etc. Other objects inspire her sculptures and large-scale drawings. "I don't differentiate between the mediums," she assures us, " nor between the scales of the works. But everything is done here. By hand."

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