Lundqvist originally trained as a structural engineer, but switched to the arts in 1991. Since 1994 she has been working with animated videos. However, she regards herself as an artist rather than an animator. Her fascination for animation as a form of artistic expression derives mainly from the fact that film is a form of time. For Lundqvist, animation is the ultimate form of expression. To draw and to tell, using both pictures and sound in an alloted space of time. In this connection, it is very interesting to compare animation and live film. For the animator, absolutely nothing happens by chance; he/she has total control throughout. Lundqvist's films are personal, but in a distanced way, and this is perhaps because they are animations and not live films.
In 'Absolutely Normal' two drawn, visually identical women, together represent one person. In a series of seven animation sequences they passively watch or actively perform metaphorical actions, which together symbolize a fictive division of the human mind. Each animation is headed by a title in phonetic script. Although calm and ironical, with hardly any events happening, these black and white, simply drawn animations with just an occasional touch of colour are filled with a peculiar, restrained type of violence.
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