Thematically the exhibition revolved around the potential of two-dimensional images to mirror three-dimensional objects. Both Chimney and Common Alphabet result from the unfolding or flattening out of spatial objects and their projection onto flat surfaces. In the case of Chimney that surface was primarily the floor of the exhibition space, while in the Common Alphabet pictures, it consisted of primed composite board.

1. Chimney takes a specific found object, a heavy cast-iron chimney cover from a primary school in Oslo, as the starting point for a monumental installation: the projection of a chimney on a scale of one-to-one but without volume. Spreading out from the centre (the chimney cover itself), concrete casts of the four side pieces of this object form a cross-like arrangement in the space. One cast meets a wall, which it begins to climb, another stretches to the plate-glass window, which it appears to penetrate, terminating in the world outside.

The breadth of the four casts, each of which is seven metres long and two centimetres thick, is thus dictated by the basic rectangular shape of the cast-iron cover (150 x 70cm). The length of the concrete surfaces, on the other hand, is determined by the proportions of the building in which the exhibition is situated. If the four surfaces were raised into a vertical position, they would be of a suitable height to serve as a chimney for the gallery. Chimney localises the exhibition space in two respects. On the one hand there is the purely geometric, sculptural intervention. On the other there is a fictitious component, suggesting that a chimney might once have stood on this exact spot.