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CONFORM STEP, CANONIC VOID

2016

Claire TROTIGNON

Works on paper

126 x 170 cm

Claire Trotignon is a young French artist who graduated from the Ecole supérieure des Beaux Arts de Tour in 2008. She composes meticulous collages, with the help of fragments cut out from engravings or ancient postcards. Originating from both intuitive handiwork and sterling work, her imaginary territories are not subjected to a linear staging or narrative. Her searches focus on the notion of space through architecture, landscape and mapmaking in a constant back and forth between past and future and the relationship between plan and volume. All her practice revolves around a questioning of the codes which animate our reality. Claire Trotignon realises large installations, series of drawings, collages and photographs. She constitutes places on transformed spatial and time scales, in a process of handmade construction and deconstruction.

Claire TROTIGNON

France

Born in 1983

She lives and works in Paris. Claire Trotignon studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Tours. She brings spaces to life on paper, for example, a children’s playhouse.

The world of skateboarding is a common inspiration of hers, making spaces your own by approaching them like a geometrician. Graffiti-covered empty swimming pools often appear in her work. Painted using the gouache method on paper, or scanned and reworked, her artwork offers different areas to explore, opening onto the blank page. Claire Trotignon adopts the sculptor's method by scanning and cutting out engravings from the 17th century sourced at flea markets, which she stores in a kind of library reflecting her imagination. She assembles the fragments after reworking, brightening and contrasting them to create romantic landscapes with fizzling energy inspired by the works of Hubert Robert and Caspar David Friedrich. In direct contrast to the rest of the piece, modernist architecture makes a striking impact, each time interrupting the idyllic landscapes and bringing them back into modern reality. The clear-edged landscapes most often seem to float on the white pages.