
Artist: Daniel Arsham + Dr Seuss
Title: The Lorax
Medium: 100% Recycled Poster
Size: 61 x 92 cm
Edition: UNSURE
Price: €72
Daniel Arsham is an American artist born in 1980 who lives and works in New York City. Raised in Miami after a childhood in Cleveland, he studied at the Cooper Union, where his interest in architecture, performance and sculpture began to merge into a single practice. Arsham’s signature concept is “fictional archaeology”: he casts everyday objects such as cameras, basketballs, telephones and even cars in geological materials like volcanic ash, selenite and sand, presenting them as future relics that appear freshly unearthed from a distant tomorrow. The eroded surfaces and crystalline fractures give each piece a ghostly elegance, inviting viewers to question how time, value and memory are formed.
Architecture plays a vital role in his work. Walls ripple, staircases dissolve and clocks sink into gallery surfaces, creating environments where the built world behaves like pliable clay. These interventions blur the line between art, design and theatre, a boundary first explored when Merce Cunningham invited Arsham to design stage sets in 2004. That experience led to ongoing collaborations with dance, music and fashion, including projects with Adidas, Dior and Porsche, and the founding of Snarkitecture, a studio that reimagines spatial practice through sculpture and installation.
Despite colour blindness, Arsham employs a largely monochrome palette, ranging from chalk white to coal black, allowing texture and form to carry emotional weight. Major exhibitions include “Paris 3020” at Galerie Perrotin, “Relics in the Landscape” at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and “What Remains” at Moco Barcelona, while his work resides in collections such as the Centre Pompidou and the ICA Miami. By merging romanticism with pop culture and science fiction, Daniel Arsham creates art that feels simultaneously ancient and avant-garde, a poetic reminder that the present is already slipping into myth.