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FedEx Glass Works |
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2007-2017 |
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Standard FedEx boxes containing the same shapes made of glass are shipped to the exhibition site, where the glass structures are presented on top of the boxes. |
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"The FedEx works […] initially interested me because they’re defined by a corporate entity in legal terms. There’s a copyright designating the design of each FedEx box, but there’s also the corporate ownership over that very shape. It’s a proprietary volume of space, distinct from the design of the box, which is identified through what’s called a SSCC #, a Serial Shipping Container Code. I considered this volume as my starting point; the perversity of a corporation owning a shape—not just the design of the object — and also the fact that the volume is actually separate from the box. They’re owned independently from one another. Furthermore, I was interested in how art objects acquire meaning through their context and through travel, what Buren called, something like, 'the unbearable compromise of the portable work of art'. So, I wanted to make a work that was specifically organized around its traffic, becoming materially manifest through its movement from one place to another." |
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“Artist Walead Beshty Shipped Glass Boxes Inside FedEx Boxes to Produce Shattered Sculptures” by Christopher Jobson, www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/01/fedex-works-walead-beshty/, |
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context, control, distribution, materiality, mediation, process |
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1853 |