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)
︎︎︎pdf (link; 6.6 MB)
︎︎︎Metrica No. 5 - video excerpts (link; Vimeo)
︎︎︎Metrica No. 5, Interlude - video (link; Vimeo)
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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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︎︎︎ Order publication through Mousse Publishing (Europe)
︎︎︎ Order publication (USA)
︎︎︎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)
--------------- Filed under: Collaboration, Video, Site-adapted installation, Sculpture ---------------
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)
--------------- Filed under: Collaboration, Site-adapted installation, Sculpture ---------------