Walead Beshty
Blind Collage (Seven 180º Rotations, Nikkan Sports: Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, March 22, 2017)
2021
Newspaper, tape, and 22 karat gold leaf Sheet 81 x 54.5 cm / 31 7/8 x 21 3/8 in Frame 100 x 80 x 4 cm / 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 x 1 5/8 in
© Walead Beshty
Walead Beshty's artistic work explores how the art system influences art production and how resulting works can shape this. His work is based on an awareness of the interactions between the social context and the social conditions: materials, production conditions, studio, and exhibition spaces, transport systems, institutions and the environment of education, criticism, the public, collectors, the art market, etc.—all these are the basis of his work. They help determine how a work of art is created, presented, and ultimately perceived.