Daniel Arsham evokes knocked-through walls with SCAD installation
Snarkitecture co-founder Daniel Arsham has opened a solo show at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art in Georgia, which features eroded, rippled and cloth-like wall installations.
Photograph by Daniel Arsham
Called The Future Was Then, artist and designer Arsham's exhibition includes a series of faux concrete walls called Wall Excavation, which looks as if a series of vertical surfaces have been blasted through.
Photograph by Daniel Arsham
This site-specific piece was commissioned by SCAD and looks as if it were a permanent part of the room, but is actually made of styrofoam and joint compound, also known as polyfilla.
Visitors walk around the walls and look through the layers of openings. As the holes get smaller, they bear more of a resemblance to the outline of a human figure.
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"As visitors engage directly with their surroundings and walk among the immersive excavation, they are met with sculpted openings in which jagged edges morph from abstract forms into the silhouette of a human figure," the museum said in a statement.
Photograph by Daniel Arsham
"This transformative experience evokes notions of progress in relation to mankind?s ability to manipulate his surroundings," it added.
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