Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag – creator of Tales from the Loop and Netflix's The Electric State – opens his Färingsö home to Vogue Scandinavia. Surrounded by nostalgic artefacts and pop culture relics, he shares how the past shapes his visionary sci-fi art and storytelling
Step inside Simon Stålenhag’s plant-filled home on Färingsö and you enter a time capsule of sorts. Surrounded by ephemera from decades past, the Swedish artist – whose retro-futurist paintings have inspired a cult following and a global Netflix adaptation – speaks about his fascination with nostalgia and its place in his creative process.
“Having collected all these old things around me is like having a compartment in time, where I can sit and be calm and work,” he says. For Stålenhag, time is not simply measured by dates or decades, but by cultural markers.
Watch as he opens up about the past worlds that continue to inform his singular vision.
Video by Kristian Bengtsson