American artist and designer Daniel Arsham has crystallised the flying car from Back to the Future, and bagged and bound Mickey Mouse for his latest exhibition, which imagines the world in the next millenium.
The 3018 exhibition opens tomorrow, 8 September 2018, at Galerie Perrotin in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

Following on from Arsham's previous explorations into history through physical objects, the showcase features icons of American pop culture reimagined in a future setting, with forms and materials distorted to suggest decay.

"3018 continues Arsham's dystopian vision of the future, one in which culture as we know it today is eroded, and the objects of modern life have fallen into aestheticised obsolescence," said a statement from the gallery. "Though the exhibition contains pieces never before seen in New York, visitors will recognise strains of previous works by Arsham, as signature forms and strategies recur, unifying Arsham's involvement in different disciplines ? sculpture, architecture, film, performance ? into a total oeuvre."

A series of cars installed on the garage-style ground floor of the gallery include the 1981 Delorean, used as the basis for the flying vehicle from the Back to the Future films, and the 1961 Ferrari 250GT California in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
But Arsham, who also co-founded Brooklyn studio Snarkitecture, has covered the vehicles in crystal to give them an ashy grey appearance, as if they are forg...