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A house, a car port, a lawn—and a fence all around it: If we look at the Austrian cultural landscape, we will find us locked in a pattern of living that is defined by capitalism. When humans as individuals became the main focus for the first time about 500 years ago, they began to distinguish themselves in their role as highly motivated administrators of their own (small) happiness. As personal property, colonization, and global conquest spurred the ambition of individuals, what was conquered had to be demarcated. Linear perspective can be understood as a visual translation of this process of individualization. The work refers to the technique of rendering perspective using a grid. Leon Battista Alberti explained this for the first time in his treatise De Pictura (1435) as a means to represent space on a two-dimensional surface by focusing on a vanishing point.

The artist duo borrowed the idea of the superimposed grid. However, they take an entirely different perspective that is by guiding our view through ten different sections of fence. The variety of materials and types of grid patterns overlap to form a dense mesh that slowly but surely makes it impossible to see what is essential.