Mark Beltchenko

Useless Appendages, 2018

Limestone, steel, bronze

12 x 10 x 7.5 inches

Detroit, MI

INSIDER series

This body of work is a somewhat cynical look at the networks, inner channels, and insider information that seem only available to certain elite groups of people be it government officials, the wealthy, or other similarly privileged parties.   These groups are able to use their privileged status and access to “insider” information to advance their status or wealth often times at the expense of everyone else.  Access to “insider” information is locked away in impenetrable forms to those individuals that are not part of these elite groups.

Beltchenko’s work depicts this “insider” information with bronze made to resemble communication systems’ wires and contains them in steel and limestone to symbolize how protected and locked away access is to information.