Sci-Fi Painter Simon Stålenhag Turns The Everyday Into Dystopia

Authors of dystopian fiction will tell you they aren’t imagining the future, but using otherworldly scenarios to throw harsh realities of the present into relief. Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy shows us the detriments of climate change, and the false intimacies that can be constructed through video games and online relationships. The Hunger Games chastises gluttony and constant cataloging. Divergent warns us that othering others can only cause calamity. One artist working actively to in...