Troika, Programming Harmony Touching Clear Sky, 2024

2024

Medium

16 shades of red, 16 shades of green, 16 shades of blue and heavy body acrylic

Dimensions

161 × 216 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-156206

In “Programming Harmony Touching Clear Sky”, Troika depicts vast landscapes that initially appear from a distance to be monochrome representations of nature. Green areas seem to suggest a desert, a distant hilly landscape, or the horizon. But as you get closer, the composition dissolves into a uniform grid: hand-painted squares, carefully placed, sixteen shades of color between light and dark, reminiscent of the logic of digital pixels. The image surface acts like a filter that both reveals and conceals the scene. While a landscape appears from a distance, on closer inspection the structure of the medium itself comes to the fore. The series is based on images from surveillance cameras and satellites, which are present even in the most remote regions of the earth. Images from the Mojave Desert or other isolated places become visible—mediated by technical systems that break down the landscape into data before translating it into color. Troika thus reveals a dual experience: while technology allows us access to places that are physically inaccessible to us, it also increases our distance from nature when it becomes visible only through grids, filters, and digital systems. By transferring the principle of digital image production to painting, the artists focus on the conditions of seeing itself and the question of how we perceive our environment today. “Programming Harmony Touching Clear Sky” makes it clear that our view of the world is increasingly mediated by machines and that our perception of nature is already shaped by this perspective.