SSCC 139751 REV 10/05 "FedEx Large Box", Priority Overnight"
A FedEx shipping box bears the visible marks of its own transit history, with dents, creases, and structural compromises serving as a record of the object's physical journey through commercial logistics networks. Beshty transforms the mundane infrastructure of global shipping into both subject and medium, allowing the work to author itself through the process of its own delivery. The piece interrogates notions of value, fragility, and the systems that move objects — and by extension, art — across the world.
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- Auction House · Phillips
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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
June 28, 2016
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