DANIEL ARSHAM (B. 1980)
Future Relic No. 07 - Cassette Player
plaster and crushed glass sculpture in the original box, unopened
5 3/4 × 5 3/4 × 5 1/10 inches (14.6 × 14.6 × 12.9 cm)
Executed in 2015. This work is number 289 from an edition of 500.

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Daniel Arsham is a New York-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice blurs the lines between architecture, archaeology, and pop culture. In his Future Relic series, Arsham reimagines everyday objects of the 20th century as eroded artifacts unearthed by a future civilization.

Future Relic No. 07 – Cassette Player extends Daniel Arsham’s exploration of cultural memory and material decay. Cast in plaster and crushed glass, the sculpture fossilizes a once-ubiquitous object of the late 20th century, suspended in a state of elegant erosion. Encased in its original, unopened box, the work remains untouched—its silence echoing themes of technological obsolescence and collective nostalgia.

In an age increasingly defined by digital ephemera, the cassette becomes a symbol of tactile intimacy and lost ritual—a monument to a culture already fading from collective memory.