Daniel Arsham’s 300-Foot Tunnel Through the SCAD Museum

Daniel Arsham has always been drawn to architecture that misbehaves, and The Future Was Then takes the instinct to its logical end: a 300-foot path cut through the SCAD Museum of Art’s Pamela Elaine Poetter Gallery, assembled from a sequence of faux-concrete walls that begin as a human-sized cutout and open out as you move through them.

It reads as a collaboration with the building. The museum’s own brick and steel become the foil for these bleached, ersatz slabs, so the passage feels excavated rather than installed, and the piece argues that making and destroying are the same gesture seen from different ends. Like the best of Arsham’s work, it drafts the room into the argument.

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