Daniel Arsham : Perpetual Present

HOW Art Museum (Shanghai) is very pleased to present the first solo exhibition in China by the renowned American artist Daniel Arsham. Perpetual Present will be on view from June 29th, 2019.
New York based artist Daniel Arsham's aesthetic 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. 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, Arsham also experiments with the timelessness of certain symbols and gestures across cultures.
The exhibition Perpetual Present was specifically conceived for the space of HOW Art Museum Shanghai，presenting the most recent and representative works of Daniel Arsham. The artist will continue his exploration on the relationship of architecture and body; seeking to discuss the nonlinearity of time and history by blurring the boundaries between present and future, reality and fiction, inviting the viewers to permeate the state of the never-changing present embodied by the transformation of ideas and forms.
The exhibition has received support from PERROTIN.