FedEx Large Kraft Box 2004 FEDEX 155143, #875468976073
2011
A large kraft cardboard shipping box bears the marks of its own transit history, its creases, tears, and handling damage elevated to the status of sculpture. Beshty ships these commercial containers through FedEx, allowing the shipping process itself—with all its physical interventions—to become the artistic act. The work interrogates systems of commerce, labor, and exchange while questioning the boundaries between object, process, and authorship.
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- Auction House · Phillips
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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
October 6, 2016
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