Daniel Arsham
Big Drip / Falling Time / Falling Figure, 2013
Fiberglass, Aqua-Resin, paint

Daniel Arsham’s uchronic aesthetics revolves around his concept of fictional archaeology. Working in sculpture, architecture, drawing and film, he creates and crystallizes ambiguous in-between spaces or situations, and further stages what he refers to as future relics of the present. They are eroded casts of modern artifacts and contemporary human figures, which he expertly makes out of some geological material such as sand, selenite or volcanic ash for them to appear as if they had just been unearthed after being buried for ages. Always iconic, most of the objects that he turns into stone refer to the late 20th century or millennial era, when technological obsolescence unprecedentedly accelerated along with the digital dematerialization of our world. While the present, the future and the past poetically collide in his haunted yet playful visions between romanticism and pop art, Daniel Arsham also experiments with the timelessness of certain symbols and gestures across cultures.

Select public collections include, Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, DIOR Collection, Paris, France, The Four Seasons Miami Collection, FL, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, Musée Guimet, Paris, France, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, National Museum of Qatar, Doha, Qatar, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), FL, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), RI, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Commissioned by Fashion Outlets of Chicago
Curated by Primary.
Chicago, IL, 2013