In developing and realising my artworks, I always work together with many people. A key protagonist in the studio team during the time period represented by Model room was the late Einar Thorsteinn, a visionary Icelandic architect and mathematician, whose interest in non-Euclidean geometry and fivefold symmetry became central to my work. Model room testifies to my long-standing collaboration and friendship with Einar.

For some years now, I have been looking for a permanent home for Model room, a museum with a strong commitment to spatial and conceptual issues, public discourse, and a precise conservation policy. I couldn’t imagine a better home for Model room than Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Maurice Blanchot "Thomas the Obscure"

He saw nothing, and, far from being distressed, he made this absence of vision the culmination of his sight. Useless for seeing, his eye took on extraordinary proportions, developed beyond measure, and, stretching out on the horizon, let the night penetrate its center in order to receive the day from it. And so, through this void, it was sight and the object of sight which mingled together. Not only did this eye which saw nothing apprehend something, it apprehended the cause of its vision. It saw as object that which prevented it from seeing. Its own glance entered into it as an image, just when this glance seemed the death of all image.