This is a book full of witty misunderstandings and flights of fancy that mixes visual metaphors with verbal personal histories. Its main protagonist is artist Andro Semeiko, who undertook a three-month residency at the Hoxton-based art gallery PEER in early 2013, where he developed a multi-layered project that delved into local history and employed the wordsmithing skills of writer Sally O’Reilly and novelist and broadcaster Zinovy Zinik. The seeds of the free-associative and swashbuckling fancies within the pages of The Holy Triangle were sown by the history of Hoxton Street itself and mingled with each contributor’s own biography and peopled by Siberian prison cats, discoursing bins, duelists, Polish property developers and unemployed Russian artists. Their absurdist worlds are rich in triangles and transubstantiation, rubbish chutes and cardigans, drunkenness and scaffolding.
