In Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag's paintings, elements of science fiction are both a provocative hook and an intrusion. The landscapes and rural tableaus are punctuated by robots or unexplained orbs or looming postmodern towers with no architectural connection to the quaint suburbia of the foreground.
With every canvas, you're left to ponder whether the unexplainable genre elements are the interlopers in our banal reality or if our banality is the interloper in something far more epic and advanced.
Based on episodes sent to critics, Nathaniel Halpern's adaptation of Stålenhag's book Tales From the Loop, a collection of those paintings, settles on something closer to the former.
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