Troika ‘Untertage‘

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TROIKA. UNTERTAGE. Ed. by Fi Churchman. Text by Eva Wilson, Mark Rappolt & Ariane Koek. König Books, Cologne 2024. 17 x 23,5 cm. 194 pages. English

Technology is a driving force in contemporary life. Today, digital change does not only happen onscreen, but impacts everything from social encounters to ecology.

Troika explores how new technologies affect our relationship with the world around us, through ambitious works that cross disciplinary boundaries and that include sculpture, film, installation and painting.

Undertage is part story-book, part research document and presents an elaborate ecosystemic fiction in which various incarnations of salt have shaped the world we live in today. Various forms of text, research, process documentation, artworks and experiments are woven together to provide a holistic view of Troika’s practice and encourage new readings of their work. 

With texts by Eva Wilson, Mark Rappolt and Ariane Koek, ‘Untertage’ provides a comprehensive insight into Troika’s work, illustrated with numerous reference images, and presented in the form of an alternative history of a world which asks the question: What if Salt were a sentient being able to sense and influence their environment? How would this change our understanding of the world?