Alberte Tranberg: A line amongst lines
01.30.26 – 04.04.26
A line amongst lines is an architectural intervention that uses the gesture of a line to sense how infrastructure directs movement, behavior, and perception. A slender steel rod, coated in glossy red, draws a physical and visual division through the landscape, guiding the viewer’s gaze along its branching off-shoots. Referencing powerlines, roads, and public signage, the sculpture frames the built environment as a disciplinary system - one that educates bodies through repetition, regulation, and standardization.
The color red operates as both warning and memory: a signal of safety and a reminder of harm inflicted in the name of protection. By invoking architectural standards, A line amongst lines questions the promise of universal design, exposing how systems meant to unify, often exclude. Installed as a marker in space, the work echoes borders and territorial claims, asking whether our paths are chosen or pre-drawn, and where agency resides within constructed landscapes.
About the Artist:
Alberte Tranberg is a Detroit-based artist and designer with a journeyman letter as a metal fabricator and an MFA from the Metalsmithing Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Tranberg has recently participated in the Venice Design Biennial, Venice -IT, and exhibited with Devening Projects, Chicago,- IL. Ornamentum Gallery, Hudson-NY, Matéria Gallery, Detroit-MI, BULK Space Detroit-MI, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen - DK, and has designed a series of award-winning handles for Reform Kitchens.
Additionally, she works with Iris Eichenberg as BERG+BERG and has presented objects at Salon Art + Design with Ornamentum Gallery in NYC and Design Miami, Florida in 2020 and 2021. Tranberg is a 2016 Fullbright recipient and was awarded the Gary S and Patricia J Griffin Scholarship, for her Masters.
