Squaring the Circle

2013

‘Squaring the Circle', 2016 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer) — ’Squaring the Circle’, 2013, bent steel tubes, black flocked surface, 42.5 x 42.5 x 32 cm
‘Stream of consciousness’, Installation View, Galerie Ron Mandos, 2016

‘Cartography of Control’, 2015 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer) — ‘Cartography of Control’, Kohn Gallery, 2015

‘Squaring the Circle’ is the first in Troika’s series of perspective sculptures, which includes ‘Dark Matter’ (2014), ‘Polar Spectrum’ (2015) and ‘Everything is and isn’t at the same time’ (2015). Inspired by Edwin Abbott’s satirical novel ‘Flatland’ each work in the series collapses the boundaries between sculptural form, the two-dimensional plane and performative action to create a hybrid artwork that defies conventional categorization.

Constructed from steel and covered in a dense black flock that absorbs light, ‘Squaring the Circle’ is both resolutely simple and intriguingly complex by simultaneously displaying the form of antithetical forms – a square and a circle.

J.J. Charlesworth, ArtReview / Art Basel 2014 roundup

Lisa Contag, Boluin Artinfo / Q & A/ Troika on ‘Dark Matter’ at Art Basel