Inventory Numbers #64

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We are physical beings. We live in a physical world. We are connected. Over space and time. Our bodies are one with the universe. We are one. Physically entangled, spiritually connected.

In Inventory Numbers, silhouettes of human beings from the collection of the Finnish National Museum are juxtaposed with silhouettes of human beings from the artist’s own photographic archive. Their overlapping bodies form a unity over time and space, their vibrations speak of the quantum processes that underlie physical and spiritual entanglement. The boundaries of body, time and space are blurred and a new, shared inventory is created.

Occasionally, the group rearranges their positions, reordering the relations between the portrayed individuals. Robotic voices read inventory numbers from the collection archive in different languages, as if the beings could only be addressed this way. The music, influenced by the collection data, further embodies the ever-changing nature of the piece.