tatiana trouvé
interview by DONATIEN GRAU
photography by OLIVIER ZAHM
paris is certainly the
most cosmopolitan
point in europe, the one most
capable of bringing into
resonance the other points
to which it is connected
DONATIEN GRAU — You were born in Italy and grew up in Africa, and you came to live in Paris. Can you tell me about this sequence? Why Paris?
TATIANA TROUVÉ — There’s no straight line linking the south of Italy, where I was born, to Dakar, in Senegal — where I spent a large part of my childhood and adolescence — to the city of Nice and the Villa Arson art school, where I studied for four years, to Amsterdam, where I spent two years after that, to Ateliers 63 in Haarlem, and finally to Paris, where I settled. On a map, this progress draws a triangle between Africa and Europe,…