A Line of Thought That Traced a Diagram (2010) consists of a free-standing structure, crafted in black MDF, and a series of works on paper or clear plastic attached between purposely constructed wall segments that repeat their width. The irregular zigzag line that forms the structure’s horizontal plane is in effect an attempt to measure and diagrammatically visualize the changing scenes and camera angles in a sequence from King Vidor´s film The Crowd, a silent epic from 1928 about the anonymous life of the big city. While the many vertical ‘struts’ act as physical support for this simplified three-dimensional picture story, they are also visualizations of an unstoppable movement progressing in uneven steps. Their syncopated rhythm further reverberates in the vertical procession of white wall segments hung with images and texts that qualify the sculptural narrative and speak of architecture, bodies in movement, camera movements, triangular shapes and diagrams.

Anders Kreuger
Curator at Lunds konsthall