Troika, Unstable Constructs, 2021

2021

Medium

Perspex tubes and photographic film

Dimensions

164 × 15 cm

Edition

Edition 1 of 3 plus 1 AP

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-156204

The work series “Unstable Constructs” is composed of acrylic glass and color fields on photographic slide film, their color spectrum is shifting in relation to the viewer’s perspective. The form refers to columns as supporting architectural elements, whose surfaces begin to shift through changes in position and develop a flowing color spectrum. In addition to their examination of perception, representation and formal reduction, Troika's works are also characterized by an immanent second level of meaning, in which critical attitudes towards processes of digitalization and associated social developments are revealed. In "Unstable Constructs", analog and digital techniques are combined. By integrating the computer-based RGB color space into the development of analogue slide film, the digital and physical worlds overlap. Troika question habits of reception and demand a state of active perception in real space. They point out that most of our everyday actions, interactions or decisions are controlled, changed, supported or promoted by technology. The work illustrates how changeable and dependent reality is on the perspective one takes on it, that even a seemingly firmly constructed object such as a pillar can be in a state of flux.