Born 1976 in London, England; lives in Los Angeles, California
Walead Beshty has long used photography as a tool to explore the social and political conditions of our material culture. More recently, the material conditions of photography itself have spurred his continuing investigations of the gap between the physical world and the image world, and the way this rupture is instrumentalized by ideologies that seek to infiltrate the processes through which we produce meaning.
From his early projects, like those in The Phenomenology of Shopping and Dead Malls, a 2004 exhibition of the artist’s work at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York, Beshty has frequently experimented with photography’s deadpan recording ability, using the mechanics of its preservation of information about objects and places in specific moments of time—especially subjects with limited native content, like the forlorn precincts of derelict shopping centers— to expose the kinds of projection and fictionalization that effect even the most superficially stable types of “factual” images.
"The phenomenology of shopping+dead malls"
P.S.1 contemporary Art center,long Island
city,NY
© 2008 Whitney Museum of American Art
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