The Petach Tikva Museum of Art (Israel) showcases Trouvé

In his work, Trouvé explores the relationship between time and space by constructing enigmatic environments grounded in logical, architectural and material distortions. These settings manifest themselves in large-scale designs as well as site-specific large-scale installations. The constant oscillation between the sculptural and architectural drawings and installations arouses the sense of dripping from one medium to another; the feeling that one action is reflected in another and that seemingly disparate worlds are spun together. The various spaces created in the works contain the concept of time in different ways: spatially, semiotically and poetically, as if attempting to map that which has vanished and no longer exists, perhaps even oblivion itself. They are equivalent to receptacles of memory, whereby Trouvé seeks a momentary hold on the ephemeral, which is immanent in the passage of time. The presence of the body is clearly visible in his works, even if the body itself is never seen in space.

The exhibition of Find at Petach Tikva Museum of Art consists of two large-scale installations, each specific to each site in its own way. Entering the first space, the viewer encounters a broken and broken ground on which different sculptural objects are scattered: temporary shelters, bronze, aluminum and copper castings with used cardboard sheets that bear their chronicle in their folds, fractures and scarred surfaces. Different objects are affixed to the sides of these structures: diaries, books and other material elements, also expressed by the same substances of the structures. Some of these surfaces bear the imprint of Trouvé's actions in the form of maps and signs, referring to a wide range of periods and cultures. Thus, for example, in Somewhere in the Solar System (2017), the roof of the structure is imprinted with a 1704 map drawn by the XNUMXth-century adventurer Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri. The map traces the trajectory of the Maja's imaginary immigration in the direction of Mexico City, and contemporary migration routes are outlined on it with long curved arrows. The difference in trail signature also reflects the ideological gap with respect to the concept itself: from a coveted process of world discovery to a sad outcome of a political state of affairs that turns ordinary citizens into homeless, stateless refugees who have no status in the world.