Richard Wentworth; a British artist, transforms found objects within his works. Richard Wentworth removes the object from its original function and gives them comic characteristics. Wentworth allows for the viewer to understand that these found objects can hold an alternative meanings. His photography plays along a sculptural aspect, some can say that Richard Wentworth incorporates ready made.
Kings Cross, London, 1999
In Richard Wentworth's Kings Cross, he has placed car doors in front of an entrance way to a building. It's interesting because the purpose of a door; in this case a car door, is to provide an entryway into a room or area. The placement of the doors is an "effective way of preventing access to the property". This allows for multiple narratives such as car-parking problems or reasons for barricading a door.
What I found interesting with Richard Wentworth's works is that he allows for his found objects to hold an alternative meaning. His objects tend to not have a connection with the new space that their introduced to.
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