Arsham is a New York-based artist whose works are founded upon the 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. His work has been shown in numerous museums and exhibitions throughout the world including MoMA PS1 in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, The Athens Biennale in Athens, Greece, The New Museum in New York, Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, California and Carré d’Art de Nîmes, France, How Art Museum in Shanghai in China, K11 in Shanghai, China, and Moco Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The exhibition comprises works such as “Fractured Idols,” where Arsham juxtaposes images of Classical Antiquity busts and anime characters from different eras, “Anatopism” painting series depicting eroded colossi, cars, and characters discovered from caves, and “Hotel Stationary Sketches,” a drawing series Arsham has continued to create as an archive of travel since the early days of his career.
