The work Distinct Functional Layers Help Establish Hierarchy and Order consists of three light posts designed by the artist. Each light post holds four blue LED lamps of a kind used on certain train stations in Japan. The blue color of the light is supposed to have a anti-depressive effect, and the light posts are intended to reduce the number of suicides committed on the platform and stations where they are put up.

The work relates to many of Eide Einarsson’s other installations and sculptural works, where he makes use of the ready made. In this work Eide Einarsson makes certain power structures visible by moving the object from the public sphere into the gallery space.

For the exhibition of the work at Nils Stærk in 2016, where it was shown together with a number of fluorescent pink paper works, the critic and poet Angus Cook wrote the following text:

One thing is for sure: the blue lights are no metaphor for mind-control. Rather, questions of mind-control may be understood as a metaphor for the bidirectional relationship of artwork to viewer.

Is it mere coincidence that blue and pink are the colors with the most compelling scientific evidence to support their use as medicine? That they are similar in this respect is somewhat curious because these particular colors strike me as more chromatically polarized than black and white or red and green.

Color as medicine is a strange idea.