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Walead Beshty 18 April 2010

I’ve been meaning to blog about Walead Beshty for a while and in particular his Fedex sculptures. They were at Altermodern last year, and (for me) were one of the highlights of the show. Beshty’s shatterproof cubes are built to fit perfectly into one of FedEx’s generic freight packages. A box that has its dimensions patented— a corporately owned unit of space. The patterns and cracks that appear in the glass are the direct result of movement, the result of traversing the ‘non-places’ and voids of international airspace. I love the poetry of these ‘assemblages’, zeitgeist objects scarred by transit. The artwork is the network: Beshty, FedEx, Patent Law, Ground Crew, Aircraft, Gallery etc… An elegant intervention situated within a complex global constellation— A beautiful synecdoche.