Luca Lee Frei creates open visual systems in the three-dimensionality of space and through textile on wall and floor. These visual systems have utopian thinking built into them, both through the associations with the utopias of modernism that are implicit in the form, and through references to twentieth-century educators such as Piaget and Montessori. He has made several works rooted in the utopian pedagogy of the Bauhaus social vision and its revolutionary potential. Lee Frei's works carry the promise of a different, more humane world. His more recent textile works employ "soft cutting," meaning he does not cut the fabric but folds it into the desired shape. In doing so, he retains the possibility of form without the finality of the cut. This ability to let every gesture carry meaning is characteristic of Frei's way of working. –Gertrud Sandqvist