Arsham: Past Present Future

III.

ON
USTRY



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Arsham x RIMOWA:
revisited as a numbered,
limited-edition “eroded
suitcase” multiple, the
sculpture is presented
as an archival object,
complete with art
handling gloves, and is
housed in a contemporary
aluminum edition of the
vintage case that inspired
the artwork – a RIMOWA
Classic Attaché



The shoes were released
alongside a short film
named Hourglass, which
explores Arsham's
creative process, and his
fascination with identity
through three chapters:
past, present and future.

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“I've always loved films about time travel
and moving through different time periods,

so the film is a kind of combination of
documentary and fiction that begins to bring
viewers through things that are true and have

happened in my life and the past, mixed in
with some obviously fictional elements.”

Arsham x KITH: Studio
Standard Collection

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finally, the iconic Dior R I M OWA
collaboration Adidas
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“We spent a lot of time in the Dior archive, looking
back at designs and objects that were created
either by Mr. Dior himself or in the house, starting
from the 50’s really. So I think a lot of inspiration
came from there. A lot of the collection was about
identifying these iconic pieces from the house: a
clock that had been in Christian Dior's atelier in
Paris, a phone that was on his desk in his house in

the south of France.

Reinterpreting these objects as archaeological
relics; think about them as things that might have

been found one thousand, ten thousand years
from now. There's a material shift in these objects.

I've recreated them in different types of crystal:
quartz, selenite, blue and pink calcite. Through

this transformation, almost like an alchemic
transformation, these objects begin to have a kind
of true age to them. Kim took a lot of the material

exploration that I work with, both in these works
and in my larger practice, as inspiration for a lot
of the collection, just referencing different aspects
of work that I've made in the past and weaving it

throughout the collection.















“I have so many friends in fashion. Probably
more than those who are quote-unquote visual
artists. I just find the pace of it inspiring; the ways
designers use the material, the things you wear,
how they make you feel, their function, their lack
of function and the play with history. I watched my
friends build their artistry over the last number of
years and have certainly been inspired by it.”





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