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, a place of movement between different…