Artists

Daniel Arsham: Porsche, Pokémon, and Basketball

When we look at Arsham's corroded artifacts, ancient times seem to breathe upon us. However, the artist achieves this effect paradoxically through objects of contemporary pop culture, presenting them as future archaeologists might see them. In Daniel Arsham's world, guitars, luxury cars, robots, Darth Vader, and Stormtroopers from Star Wars erode. In 2019, as part of his Fictional Archaeology series, an "eroding" basketball was created,…