Daniel Arsham on the Ideation & Creation of “Fictional Archeology“

Get the latest from HYPEBEAST TV by hitting the SUBSCRIBE button! Opened on September 11 at Hong Kong’s Galerie Perrotin, “Fictional Archeology” is Daniel Arsham‘s second showing in the city, and tenth project with the Parisian gallery. True to its name, the body of work takes inspiration from the Mt. Vesuvius eruption of 79 A.D. which froze the now infamous Roman inhabitants of Pompeii in volcanic ash for eternity. Taking the morbid visuals of the ash-bound corpses and applying them to modern-day figures