David Alekhuogie: A Thin Blue Line
Colloquially, the title of the exhibition A Thin Blue Line refers to police forces and their responsibility to maintain order in the public space. The "thin blue line" is often rendered as an abstract form: a black space bisected by a blue line. The line is a symbol for the fragility of order in the public sphere. In this exhibition, the thin blue line is co-opted, deconstructed, and repurposed, collapsing its perceived meaning into both abstract and literal forms, which reveal the line's fiction and self-invention.
A Thin Blue Line investigates the intersections of public and private space, order and chaos, pack behavior, and the violence generated by collective trauma. Utilizing a range of media including photography, sculpture, sound, and video, the artist flattens historical and everyday records of violence, obsession, and desire in order to render them abstract.
