Susan Rankaitis, My Name is For My Friends, 2005
SUSAN RANKAITIS
My Name is For My Friends, 2005
Archival LightJet print mounted front and back to Plexiglas
Image: 20 x 60 inches; Framed: 24 1/2 x 64 1/2 inches
© Susan Rankaitis, courtesy Robert Mann Gallery
CURRENTLY ON VIEW: Stamp 2nd Floor, Colony Lounge
In 2005, Susan Rankaitis created Limbicwork, a public installation at an open-air museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. Working with a group of young, local artists, Rankaitis suspended brightly colored plastic tubing from trees in a densely forested area outside the city where Jewish people had been massacred and buried in mass graves by the Nazis between 1941 and 1944. The artists arced and looped the tubing to mimic the shape of the limbic system, a complex collection of structures in the brain believed to influence the formation of memories by connecting emotion to physical sensation. Rankaitis then photographed the installation, memorializing it with images such as the two prints juxtaposed almost seamlessly here.
Stamp Gallery, 2016