Waslead Beshty is an artist, writer and professor that works in Los Angeles. He's been described as a formalist and abstract photographer.
“A Partial Disassembling of an Invention Without a Future: Helter-Skelter and Random Notes in Which the Pulleys and Cogwheels Are Lying Around at Random All Over the Workbench” - This is the title of of his exhibition that was featured in this video.
For this particular exhibition in London he transformed the curve into a massive panorama series which was made up of over 12,000 cyanotype prints. I learnt from this video that the cyanotype printing method is one of the earliest photographic processes that have a cyan-blue tint to the images. Beshty opted to present the exhibition in a chronological order, as a result this allows his instillation to be 'read' as a timeline that is visual.
What I liked most about this interview was that Beshty was openly detailing his process of creating and choosing artwork that would be included in the final exhibition. He explained that he didn't choose pieces based on their aesthetic beauty or any fixed narrative, rather he chose to sort through the material in an 'open' way that didn't close off any possibilities that he couldn't see. His aim was to choose in a very passive and basic way.
In addition to this I really impressed by the sheer size and magnitude of the exhibition. As well as his thoughts about the studio as a machine that makes photographs.
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