Joel Pedersen: Space People

Overview

While hovercars, podracers and a McDonalds on Mars may not be a yet be a part of our lives, they are for artist Joel Pedersen. An artistic prophet of sorts, Pedersen uses his work to explore the balance between far-fetched ideas and realism, asking timeline-twisting questions that ponder the space between technological fantasies and their feasible existence.

With that in mind, Pedersen's latest exhibition, Space People, showcases a make-believe future set in the American Southwest. In his work, Pedersen lets real-life locations meet the latest and greatest tech wizardry in a means that seems half realistic.

His pieces provide a believable snapshot of a place where technology, the future, the unreal, the paranormal and the extraterrestrial combine. And it's not as if these are things that are reserved for likes of Bill Gates and Richard Branson. They're as much a part of the transport infrastructure and industry supply chain as they are integrated into the domestic lives of the people living there.

Space People is made up of a selection of prints spanning Pedersen’s vast body of composite images. It exhibits at This Must Be The Place until January 8.