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in the depiction of the dates for the
exhibition pushing it a thousand years
into the future
one of the big artworks that I've
created specifically for the space here
is a complete archaeological excavation
site viewers see a series of workers
excavating objects kind of distorted by
the erosion quality of it cameras a
basketball a Jordan sneaker when they
come and see this laboratory this kind
of confusion around time is further
enhanced my name is Daniel Asha I live
in New York City and a visual artist and
designer it's the first exhibition in
mainland China the future relic series
began shortly after this trip in Easter
Island maybe ten years ago famous for
its archaeology and these were statues I
spent a lot of time discussing with them
about series of archaeologists the
origins of the statues kind of
reverse-engineer it could I take an
object from now from today and could I
make it look and feel like an
archaeological object just in this
exhibition alone there's probably 30 or
40 different casts objects in the
selection of objects I'm always looking
for something that is kind of iconic it
identifies it with a particular time
period
the first pieces that I cast were all
technological objects so a Pentax camera
that my grandfather gave me a Polaroid
camera a blackberry phone and then I've
gone into cultural objects that are
identifiable a Nike Jordan sneaker
basketball and the integration of
childhood objects I have two small sons
so I made a number of different
childhood toys cast from their plush
origin into quartz crystal when you
approach them you you have this memory
of childhood
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colors whereas you might see millions of
variation in that I can see hundreds of
variation maybe so my colorblindness I
always saw it as a potential gift it
allowed me to focus more on black and
white universe whether it's in
archaeology or in our impression of
color in these places that are in
between reality and fiction these are
the areas I like to operate as an artist
the large rabbit sculpture that greets
you at the entrance
it's the largest work that I've created
to date
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after the rabbit is a series of walls
that have these broken holes within them
erosion happening into architecture and
as the breaks continue they begin to
build a shape a human figure
viewers are forced to kind of meander
around that if you're looking directly
at the wall that you see people crossing
in opposite directions
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then not the height of that ceiling in
there it's the perfect place to exhibit
this work architecture becomes playful
it's alive
it's a kind of amorphous entity so I
grew up in the 90s around hip-hop and
skating and and certainly sneakers were
part of my universe as my work evolved
and I started to think about how can I
engage different audiences series around
music and sports the blending of popular
culture and and visual art it really
does cross cultures what is the world
that I'm depicting within these and is
it pessimistic I don't actually all of
the objects that we have today they will
become this archaeological object and I
believe in human and ingenuity to evolve
I think this is a good conversation to
have it can provoke a lot of sensation
and people around the potential future
and how we're thinking about our planet
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