Hold the Line 2020
Single-channel video 16:9 full HD
Duration: 00:01:57
A line was traced with a chalk marker pen along the left handrail of an electric escalator located within Mexico City Metro Station Aquiles Serdán in the direction of Barranca del Muerto, following the escalator's own course of travel while remaining in a fixed position on the ground floor beside the escalator, until an uninterrupted and continuous line was formed. This action was realized during the coronavirus lockdown. "The image of the progress to infinity is the straight line, at the two limits of which alone the infinite is, and always only is where the line—which is determinate being—is not, and which goes out beyond to this negation of its determinate being, that is, to the indeterminate; the image of true infinity, bent back into itself, becomes the circle, the line which has reached itself, which is closed and wholly present, without beginning and end."/>- Hegel, The Science of Logic/>