Mark Zuckerberg Taps Daniel Arsham to Sculpt 7-Foot Statue of His Wife Priscilla Chan
The Meta CEO was inspired by the Roman tradition of honoring your wife through sculpture.
Time and again, Mark Zuckerberg will make headlines for something entirely unexpected, like the time he was photographed hydrofoiling with his face dripping of sunscreen or the now viral meme of the Meta CEO’s relaxed hairstyle — which in reality was retouched to exaggerated levels. Next on the list is, well, a statue that Zuckerberg had crafted by Daniel Arsham of his wife Priscilla Chan.
The seven-foot artwork appears like a work of antiquity — a stylistic preference for Arsham, who amongst other things, is know for creating fossilized relics of contemporary objects. Chan’s likeness is cast in a weathered and oxidized copper that is finished in a dark teal coating. Encased around her is a shiny himation wrapped around the body of the sculpture.
“The more of me the better?” said Chan in an Instagram post, as she stood next to the statue drinking from a coffee mug. Zuckerberg added that the inspiration for the work came from the “Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife.” Chan and Zuckerberg met while in college studying at Harvard and married in 2012. They have three daughters Maxima, August and Aurelia.
