Walead Beshty
Walead Beshty
Walead Beshtyis a Los Angeles-based artist and writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
CountryUnited States of America
certainly surplus work
I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.
relationship
There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
applies certain extremely floor goes history means
It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
works
My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
art changed physically work
I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
broad consider enter terms work
I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.
photography use care
I'm not particularly invested in, nor do I really care about, photography in a general sense. It's a medium that's relatively ubiquitous, readily accessible, and that I have some facility with, so it makes sense for me to use it.
photography discovery desire
[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).
photograph
There is no photograph more inherently photographic than another.