If the nukes start flying and our civilization is lost, what might the archaeologists of the future make of their discovery if they dug up one of Erik Parker’s Upswing Dub Project pieces, we wonder? Why do we wonder? Because his latest project was inspired by the hieroglyphic friezes of ancient Egypt, and like those tales of who’s who and what’s what from the time of the Pharaohs, Parker uses iconography to give us his interpretation of what’s going on, albeit a rather subverted interpretation.

Following a layered, linear structure, Parker presents a cast of characters as alien to us as the bird-headed gods the Victorians dug up. Presented in a colour palette of neon, the artists more usually associated with his paintings fuses hand-drawn, cartoonish creatures with found collage material. Created in Pace Prints‘ Pace Editions studios, New York, this perverted view of the world is on display there until 13th April.