‘Labyrinth’ stems from Troika’s interest in the genesis and geometry of the labyrinth as an ambiguous diagram and is part of a larger series of works in which the artists re-appropriate logically derived systems, mathematical sequences and rules by submitting them to uncontrollable or unpredictable elements.
Here, wooden multicursal maze-structures were placed on wet paper and submitted to candle soot and coloured smoke bombs as an attempt to plot movement over time as well as to investigate the topology of a geometry that is representative for structural sophistication and technological mastery.
Once the smoke has left its trace, the wooden structure is removed making invisible what created the path in the first place, and omitting all other possibilities or routes originally inherent in the maze.
With ‘Labyrinth’, Troika continue their research into the labyrinth as an archetype, both a psychological phenomenon and as an image to describe the inconclusive or indeterminate character of knowledge.