FedEx Tube 2005 FEDEX 139752 REV 10/05 SSCC, Standard Overnight, Los Angeles - Beverly Hills trk# 872671828542, February 22-23, 2012, Standard Overnight, San Francisco - Beverly Hills trk# 87911714545, January 30-31, 2013, Standard Overnight, Torrance - Long Island City trk# 555240150614, July 24-25, 2013
This cylindrical FedEx shipping tube serves as both the artwork's medium and its documentary record, bearing the accumulative history of its own transit across multiple shipments between California and New York. The piece transforms the mundane infrastructure of commercial shipping into an art object, with the tracking numbers, dates, and routes embedded directly into the title functioning as a form of conceptual notation. Beshty's work interrogates ideas of authenticity, circulation, and institutional systems by elevating the shipping container itself — typically invisible in the presentation of art — to the status of the work.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Under the Influence
September 19, 2013
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