Physically demanding, repetitive tasks are increasingly becoming the driving factor and core of Lidén’s work. In her four-minute video, we accompany the artist as she climbs a scaffold. You’re all places that leave me breathless is filmed in portrait mode, the camera itself turns with the artist as she moves sideways, upwards, or downwards; it is as if her body were no longer subject to the laws of gravity, as if it has itself become the center of gravity and rotation. The confusing tilt of the camera makes spatial orientation almost impossible. Lidén executes the movements with great control and concentration - what we see is monotonous action without any ostensible purpose, movement without direction.

Lidén’s artistic approach reveals an affinity with the American artist Bruce Nauman, who recorded exercises and repetitive sequences of actions in his studio in the 1960s. Lidén’s “studio” is the public urban space. The video was recorded on Skalitzer Strasse in Berlin, where the artist climbed underneath the elevated U1 train, one of the oldest subway lines in Germany. The title of the work comes from a line in a song from the musical Royal Wedding (1951), performed by Hollywood star Fred Astaire. For this number, he dances light-footedly across the walls and ceiling of a room in one of his most famous solo acts. Tricks were used to create this scene: Astaire was filmed in a rotating cage with a fixed camera. He adapted his movements to the changes in gravity, giving viewers the impression that he was walking weightlessly up the walls.