Lines were cut into the floor and walls of a white room, wooden and metal strips were wedged into the slots, adding tension to the various planes of this “prepared” space. What is going to happen? What in-between is this space caught in? What should we be prepared for? No answers will be provided to these questions, because the proposition holds within itself the possibility of all actions or events to come. The space is prepared to be visited as much as it is to be destroyed, as ready to be fixed as it is to be altered. Yet this proposition is dissimilar to the reference it contains in its title. The prepared space recalls the “prepared piano” whose potential was explored, in particular, by John Cage from 1940 to 1952. The suspense of the moment holding the event at its point of pure potential in the prepared space is the counterpoint to the anticipation of accidental sounds produced at random by playing the prepared piano. Prepared Space was created for Trouvé’s retrospective at MAMCO in 2014 and then donated to the museum by the artist.