Troika, Hebe, 2017

2017

Medium

Jesmonite

Dimensions

88 × 30 cm

Edition

Ed. 3/3

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-156233

The sculpture “Hebe” is part of the work series “Compression Loss”, in which Troika breaks down plaster casts of mythological marble sculptures into individual uniform segments and reassembles them using logically derived sequences or prescribed variations such as doubling or compression. In her works, Troika often draws on explanatory models for our reality, examining the interplay between model and actually perceived reality. The title of the series “Compression Loss” refers to the model of compression used, in which data is compressed or reduced in order to make information smaller, but in which some of the information from the original data can also be lost. As a result, “Hebe” - the Greek goddess of eternal youth - is almost unrecognizable. The individual parts were no longer assembled identically to the original model - a plaster cast by Bertel Thorvaldsen. Nevertheless, the reference to the original remains clear. By juxtaposing logical applications and mythology, Troika shows how the application of a purely rational and scientific method to practical life is often at odds with the subjective and unpredictable, and how something essential can often be lost in the transfer.