Concrete Playground

The twentieth century was a time for joyous speculation, when many minds envisaged future utopias of married technology and cultures. Back then, our future was filled with flying cars, friendly aliens, food pills and zero gravity sexbots. And everyone wore silver foil, because it was awesome. Sadly, successive decades of very bad behaviour have corrupted our future visions, and now all we can hope for is that our poisoned bodies develop a kind of tumour that allows us to breath underwater.

Sydney artist Kenzie Larsen is fighting that grim vision with a return to all things bright, shiny and low budget. Channelling the sci-fi films of old, Larsen has created a sculptural and print playground for those wanting to explore the grand frontiers of forgotten space.

Photo by James Brown