Ultrared, Evergreen, Ocean Blue

Ultrared, Evergreen and Ocean blue. In the exhibition Pink Noise (2024), the windows of the Langen Foundation become macro versions of the red, green, and blue Bayer colour filter array that typifies digital images, a motif that re-appears in Troika’s red, green, and blue paintings Irma Watched Over by Machines (2019) as well as in one of the scenes in their film Terminal Beach (2020).

In Troika’s exhibition Buenavista (2025) at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, the art space’s south-facing semicircular window is divided into three monochromatic zones, which bring a shifting spectrum of light into the exhibition space throughout the day, along with the seasonal changes that take place over the duration of the installation. In reference to the mediated experiences of the natural world, the architecture is thus reshaped to evoke the subjective inner realm of the mechanical sensing and imaging devices through which we encounter the world.