In this videowork we see more than three hundred basketballs stuffed in velvet bags that are heading down a staircase. The video is filmed on the main staircase at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm and can be read in different ways: one is that each ball is unique but at the same time they create a kind of unit - working together, moving forward and teaming up. Some of the objects move fast, some slowly. Others stumble, but they all seem to be invading the space - just like students do.
From the start, Friberg has carried out intuitive, anthropological research using contemporary men as the object of her work. Commoncause showed a change in her aesthetic expression, leaving portrayals of human beings and instead relying on more abstract forms.
