La galleria Perrotin di Parigi espone fino a metà Maggio, negli spazi di Hong Kond, una mostra di Tatiana Trouvé.
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TATIANA TROUVÉ “HOUSE OF LEAVES”
Perrotin, Hong Kong
March 20 - May 17, 2017
Opening Reception: Monday March 20, 6-8 pm
Perrotin gallery, Hong Kong, is happy to present a solo exhibition
of Tatiana Trouvé entitled “House of Leaves”from March 20 to May
17, 2017. The exhibition will comprise a series of new works. The
opening will be held within the same week as ArtBasel Hong Kong.
“To inhabit is to be at home everywhere”. This curious openness
to the world, which the Italian architect Ugo La Pietra made his
program, has long captivated my attention because it emphasizes
mobility and outlook as the only ways to be at home, potentially,
everywhere. In contrast to sedentariness and property, habitation
no longer designates anything here other than this singular scope
of vision.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, men had miniature images of their
eyes painted on a fine slice of ivory and set into rings or brooches
which they sent to the women they secretly loved. The women
who carried this secret declaration on their fingers indicated that
a man had fixed this gaze upon them and that he had captured
them. With these “eyes of love,” the gaze that looks at me and
which I carry, becomes also the one with which I look.
I like thinking that the reach of our gaze also contains the look of
another, just as when we walk, we follow the footsteps of another.
I like thinking that inhabiting is a way of seeing, and resting our
gaze on an object or a landscape, familiar or foreign, to which we
are connected without belonging to it.
And if the host of these ways of inhabiting is inevitably an individual
who travels, who belongs to the world as much as the world
belongs to him, no doubt only one habitat enables him to fulfill his
experience of life: the hut. To be at home everywhere requires, it
seems to me, ephemeral architecture, without threshold, where the
dimensions of domestic and wild, the boundaries of interior and
exterior, inside and outside, overlap and harmonize, forming an
intermediate world that forges a way of reconnecting with the world.
It does not matter if these constructions seem unstable, or if they
could blow away with the first gust of wind. They are not made to
resist the world but to merge with it, up close and far away, here
and unto infinity.
Tatiana Trouvé
