Walead Beshty’s Printed Matter,Inc. 195 Tenth Avenue New York, NY 10011 USA T: 212.925.0325, F: 212.925.0464 www.printedmatter.org was created by coating Printed Matter’s Tenth Avenue letterhead with photosensitive solution. The sheets were then crumpled and exposed to light, creating a series of 20 unique, framed works. The end result of the works are abstract, blue and white compositions which appear dimensional, reminiscent of their history as a crumpled object. The back and forth between the flat surface of the page and the memory of the folds and creases cemented in photosensitive ink act as a kind of framework for photography’s slippery ability to hold the past in its process.
Walead Beshty (b. 1976 in London) is an artist whose work centers around pushing photography’s capacity to function as a documentary form. Beshty considers photographs to be ruins, which opens up a multitude of narratives, rather than a tool for describing the truth. Beshty has received solo exhibitions at The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Barbican Centre in London, Petzel Gallery in New York City and Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden. He has been featured in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gemeente Museum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
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