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Arsham Daniel
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Monstera, a houseplant in the interior, is not just a decorative element, but a living projection of time and space that changes along with its environment. Arsham’s work is part of his exploration of time and space through the transformation of familiar objects. This sculpture, made of bronze with a gradient pigment application, represents a monstera plant that appears to have been eroded by time, creating the impression of an artifact from the future.
The project “Hybrid Space for Work and Life,” created by Daniel Arsham and including the houseplant, became a place where the past, present, and future intertwine, shaping a new reality. Materiality and memory enter into a dialogue, creating a unique system of coordinates where objects become markers of time, and space reflects changes and ongoing searches.
Daniel Arsham creates installations and objects that conjure a kind of mythical contemporary archeology. In a practice that spans film, painting, sculpture, and installation—and employs elements of architecture and performance—the artist distorts recognizable forms (a cereal box or classical sculpture, for example) into corroded, calcified, or otherwise glitched-out artifacts. Sometimes he manipulates gallery spaces themselves to achieve his desired effect.
Arsham studied at Cooper Union in New York and has exhibited in New York, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, Los Angeles, London, and beyond. In particular had exhibitions at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, The New Museum and at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His work belongs in the collections of the Musée Guimet, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, among others. In addition to his fine art practice, Arsham has collaborated with a number of brands, including Adidas, Dior, Porsche, Nike, Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein, COS, and he has worked with the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team as creative director. In 2008, Arsham co-founded the art and architecture collaborative Snarkitecture alongside Alex Mustonen.