From November 22, 2025 to February 1, 2026, the contemporary art center Les Tanneries presented L’intimité des temps, a solo exhibition by Claire Trotignon.
Through drawings, collages, and installations, the artist composed landscapes suspended between ruin and construction, where the memory of forms entered into dialogue with the architectural space of Les Tanneries.
For the past fifteen years, Claire Trotignon had developed a precise and poetic practice centered on the notions of structure, fragment, and trace. Drawing from engraved images taken from architectural manuals and old encyclopedias, she assembled meticulous compositions in which architectural elements recomposed themselves into uncertain topographies, without stable scale or defined horizon. These collages, often enhanced with washes, gouache lines, or blocks of color, evoked cartography, archaeology, and the memory of territories.
Her installations extended these investigations into real space: structures made of wood, steel, or plaster established a precarious balance between construction and collapse, memory and disappearance.
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