Metrica No. 5-10


Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter
2025 - ongoing

Installation images below from Metrica No. 5, solo exhibition at Rupert (LT, link) and Metrica No. 5, Interlude at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania (2026). Metrica No. 5 is commissioned by Rupert and the Lithuanian Council for Culture, and supported by the Mondriaan Funds, Culture Moves Europe (the European Union and the Goethe-Institut), and the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania.

Metrica No. 6 is supported by the Mondriaan Funds and filmed in the Netherlands at the Delft Stadsarchief and the Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland (exhibition forthcoming).


︎︎︎Text and credits (page)
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pdf (link; 6.6 MB)
︎︎︎Metrica No. 5 -
video excerpts (link; Vimeo)
︎︎︎Metrica No. 5, Interlude - video (link; Vimeo)



deposition


Marissa Lee Benedict, Daniel de Paula, David Rueter
2018 – ongoing


︎︎︎ PDF (link; 4.5 MB)

︎︎︎ Text (page)

︎︎︎Exhibition link (34th Bienal de São Paulo, 2021)


Supported by the ︎︎︎Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Resource Center (Chicago, IL), University of Oregon, Oregon Arts Commission, and the Ford Family Foundation.

Image credits: Everton Ballardin, Jose Pelegrini Jr. , Levi Fanon for the São Paulo Bienal, David Rueter, Marissa Lee Benedict

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    ︎︎︎designed by ︎︎︎Studio Kader
    ︎︎︎edited by Karsten Lund
    ︎︎︎texts by Yamila Goldfarb, Camberon Hu, Ana Teixeira Pinto
    ︎︎︎interviews with Beatriz Cruz and Vânia Medeiros; Paulo Miyada and Jacopo Crivelli Visconti; and Dan Peterman


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Reservoir (Series A, B, C)


Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter
2025 - ongoing
Work-in-progress (PET 5-gallon water bottle preforms, water, air, found institutuional architectures)

︎︎︎Text (page)



The Plate of Brass      + 
Banker’s Boxes (under influence)


Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter
2024
Installation views at the Headlands Center for the Arts (US, 2024)

︎︎︎Text (page)

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Metrica, Vol. I, II, III


Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter
2023 - 2024
Installation views at Rupert (LT) for ︎︎︎Earth Bonds (2023), the Headlands Center for the Arts (US, 2024), and the Center for Art Research + the Camilla Leach Room Design Library, University of Oregon (US, 2024)

︎︎︎ PDF (link; 4.6 MB)

︎︎︎ Text (page)

︎︎︎Rupert take-away pdf (link; 1.2 MB)


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