Troika, Borrowed Light, 2022

2022

Medium

Perspex and photographic film

Dimensions

45 × 35 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-156234

In “Borrowed Light”, the layering of colored slide film strips creates a flow of intense color fields, comparable to abstract photography. The work is reminiscent of a sunrise or sunset, with the entire color spectrum representing this natural phenomenon. The sunset is one of the most frequently recorded and reproduced photographic motifs, revealing the attempt to digitally capture a profoundly ephemeral event. Troika combines analogue and digital techniques in their production processes, in order to work with intangible and ephemeral media such as light to shape their reception as something malleable rather than absolute. The artists expand the two-dimensional image onto a three-dimensional object and explore how technology is changing the human relationship to reality and how the digital world is increasingly extending into the physical world. The series “Borrowed Light” is a further development of the installation of the same name, exhibited at the Barbican, London in 2019 and in which a slowly moving film strip mirrored a steady sunrise and sunset. The title refers to the principle of the borrowed landscape "Borrowed Scenery" in Japanese garden architecture, in which the background landscape is included in the composition of the garden.