DANIEL ARSHAM (B. 1980)
Future Relic No. 06 - Polaroid
plaster and crushed glass sculpture in the original box, unopened
5 1/2 × 5 3/4 × 5 inches (14 × 14.6 × 12.7 cm)
This work is number 23 from an edition of 445.

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Daniel Arsham is a New York-based artist whose practice bridges architecture, archaeology, and pop cultural detritus. Known for transforming familiar objects into eroded artifacts, Arsham casts relics of the recent past as if unearthed from a future civilization.

Future Relic No. 06 – Polaroid Camera is part of his iconic Future Relic series, which imagines everyday 20th-century items as archaeological discoveries. Cast in white hydrostone with pulverized glass, the sculpture captures a Polaroid camera mid-disintegration—its form softening, fractured, and partially lost to time.

At once precise and poetic, the piece reflects Arsham’s ongoing meditation on obsolescence, memory, and material decay. Once a symbol of instant image-making and analog intimacy, the Polaroid here becomes a monument to a vanished era—a tactile echo of rituals now replaced by the digital present.