Daniel Arsham

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The Story of the Eroded Delorean: About a decade ago, I was sitting with a friend and collector, talking about where I wanted to push my practice next. I had been creating fictional archaeological castings, imagining relics from a parallel timeline. I told him I wanted to scale up and go beyond the body and into something that could carry a larger cultural weight. What could capture a moment in time better than a car? We went through a list, and when I mentioned the DeLorean, he immediately said, thats the one. The DeLorean was futuristic, iconic, and also a failure in many ways. That contradiction fascinated me. I found one in California and brought it back to the studio. Instead of casting the whole car as a solid block which likely would’ve collapsed under its own weight, I carefully removed panels, built in the erosion, and cast the interior in geological materials like stone, pyrite, and quartz crystal. The result felt like a time traveler’s tomb, half artifact, half vision of the future that never arrived. The work debuted at my 3018 show at @emmanuelperrotin in New York and instantly struck a chord. It became a lightning rod for conversation in both the art and automotive worlds. Years later, it remains a touchstone in my practice. An emblem of ambition, failure, and the beauty in imagining what gets left behind.

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