Claire Trotignon

Claire Trotignon draws in space and builds on paper. As she draws and cuts out, she extends the lines and structure with reconstructed fragments, thus implementing a collision of heterogeneous elements and shattering traditional aspects of perspective and linear narration to give rise to new space-time paradigms. The heterogeneity and multitude of her sources produce a prismatic image. Her topologies play on relativistic and anachronistic parameters, balanced over the emptiness of a negative-space drawing. The conjunction of landscapes, architecture and cartography produces ruin-like results, which become symbols of both a loss and an implicit interpretation of our reality. Ruins are a common feature in her works, as markers of a state of tension between their physical materiality and the immateriality they suggest. This balancing act between the trace, the hollow and the collapse enables us to view ruins as Alain Schnapp does: as something that is ever-evolving, as a form of cyclical return to culture and nature. The aim is to perceive a dynamic rather than an opposition, which might then become a flux, a line, a drawing. Claire Trotignon composes her drawings through a perpetual poietic process that gives birth to infinite space-time continuums.

Translated by Lucy Pons, 2024