Daniel Arsham Digs into the Future at Perrotin Seoul

Perrotin Seoul presents Memory Architecture, a solo exhibition by American artist Daniel Arsham, marking his return to Korea after his acclaimed 2024 retrospective at the Lotte Museum. Known for blending classical form with futuristic decay, Arsham’s work invites viewers to reconsider time, memory, and material.

At the heart of this exhibition is Arsham’s concept of “Fictional Archaeology” the idea that present-day objects might be rediscovered as ancient relics. From monumental bronze sculptures to sand cast busts, his hybrid forms like the Amalgamized Venus of Arles and Crouching Venus seamlessly fuse ancient aesthetics with modern materials such as stainless steel and 3D-printed components.

New works like Stairs in the Labyrinth and the dreamlike paintings Solo Wandering and The Wanderer and Their Dog further develop Arsham’s visual language evoking Romanticism while speaking to digital age mythology. His charcoal drawings round out the show, revealing the artist’s quiet precision behind his monumental visions.

Memory Architecture is both timeless and timely a poetic excavation of human imagination, where ancient gods meet contemporary ghosts.

Perrotin Seoul | July 10 – August 16, 2025
10 Dosan-daero 45-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul

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