Limits of a Known Territory

Limits of a Known Territory is a site-specific work originally commissioned by Fondazione NC Arte in 2015. The installation doubles as a landscape and its own mirror world. Droplets of water suspended in mid-air appear to be floating upward from the flooded floor towards the ceiling above, moving to the rhythm of a subdued soundscape of metallic clicks and drips. And yet they do obey gravity, forming ripples that spread across the pool and reflect off the concrete walls of the gallery. The floor behaves like a screen, creating an illusion of symmetry between the real world and its digital counterpart. Within the flooded gallery, Troika offer a ‘live simulation’ or ‘real virtuality’ in which we can perceive the granular nature of reality within the stream.

– Dehlia Hannah

Claudia Segura, ‘Approaching Perception’