Laser cut aluminum, aggregated paint, single-channel video animation, lightbox
Overall dimensions variable
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary


Both The Evening Line and "The Morning Line" are infinitely modular constructions, built from a single shape, called "the bit", that assembles with other similar bits to make occupiable spaces. This bit is conceived as a universal brick that can be mapped with Matthew Ritchie's drawings to produce pictures in and of space.

“The project is not only about geometry, it’s about expression. There is nothing else in the project besides Matthew Ritchie’s visual language. The lines themselves and the drawings they make are the structure and the space." – Aranda/Lasch

The embodiment of this system is Matthew Ritchie's own decade-long artistic project of constructing a personal cosmology that weaves his own histories within the languages of science, myth and religion to construct a single systemic or "semasio-graphic" visual language. The artist's visual language maps onto the bits to make The Evening Line a true unification of expression and structure. In other words, the drawings are both structural and meaningful at once. This synthetic process is accomplished by applying certain geometric constraints to Matthew Ritchie's drawings so that as they grow and change, every line connects to every other line to form a larger picture and a structural framework. Geometry and expression become one.

Aranda\Lasch is a New York and Tucson-based design studio established in 2003 by Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch that designs buildings, installations and furniture.


Matthew Ritchie: *1964 in London, UK | Living and working in New York, USA
Benjamin Aranda: *1973 | Living and working in New York and Tucson, USA
Chris Lasch: *1972 | Living and working in New York and Tucson, USA