Trevor Paglen & Troika: Chapter VIII – Hallucinations

The exhibition unites the practices of Trevor Paglen and the collective Troika, interrogating how technologies shape perception, legibility, and the construction of reality. Both examine how technology configures the ways we see and understand the world, though they approach this question from opposite directions: Paglen reveals infrastructures designed to remain invisible, while Troika investigates systems that make the world appear more ordered and coherent than it truly is. In dialogue, their works open a space to question where perception ends and technological design begins.

Across four galleries, “Hallucinations” traces a shared fascination with the ways humans, machines, and environments perceive, transform, and “dream” one another. The exhibition moves between data-driven vision systems, forests interwoven with electronics, and installations evoking vegetal intelligences, placing technological, natural, and perceptual structures into conversation. Paglen and Troika illuminate hidden architectures—algorithmic, biological, historical, and imagined—that organise the world we inhabit, often without our awareness. Their works chart shifting forms of life and perception, revealing how the organic and the artificial continually influence and reshape one another.