Rick Gribenas

Inventory Suite

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2003

Silkscreened Editioned paper sculptures, electroluminescent wire, Speakers,

electronics. 

Dimensions variable.

Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA

Inventory Suite is an edition of nine separate prints. Eight of these prints are silkscreen

drawings of a body with penetrating parts, each of which is associated with a serial number.

The totality of the eight screen-prints walks around the human body, cataloging it sequentially.

The numeric system identifies where, when, why, and to whom those separate pieces or parts

belong. With these drawings, the human body is equated to a warehouse with inventory that

comes and goes.  The ninth print is a sheet of floor plans; that are used to create a site-specific

installation at Artist Image Resource, 150 of the floor plans are cut out and folded. The small

assemblages each contain a single bed and a bathroom. Two of the paper rooms are lit by

small lights, suggesting the possibility of an occupant. Eight different rooms house thin

speakers which emit recordings of someone occupying a space of approximately the same

size.

 

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