Daniel Arsham - Fictional Archeology

orn in the United States in 1980, Daniel Arsham lives and works between New York and Miami. Influenced by pop culture, he mixes different media in his works, such as sculpture, performance or video. In its reflections and works, architecture plays a major role. Walls in ruins, stairs leading nowhere, landscapes in which nature finally reclaims its right: Arsham forces architecture to do what it shouldn't, to merge form and space, through a simple but nonetheless gesture. paradoxical. In his Future Relic project, consisting of both sculptures (notably in volcanic stone or limestone) and 2 films in which he stages his sculptures (a third is currently in production, with actor James Franco), Daniel Arsham creates fictions around everyday objects that have become fossils, found after a cataclysm on an Earth that has become inhospitable and arid. For the first time, in Ficitonal Archeology, Daniel Arsham returns, in a text he signs, on these relics of the future, on his imagination between science fiction and dystopia, on which he has so far made no comment. . Musical instruments, cameras, cameras and films, telephones, tires, helmets, televisions, consoles, toys, tools, sports objects ... the artist experiments with objects from all parts of our daily life, giving them a shiny appearance but disintegrated thanks to the materials it uses. Result: these future objects from the past that disintegrate in the present.

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