Stranger Things

DID A SPACESHIP crash into Parkview Museum and set loose a colony of aliens capable of taking on human forms? One is sometimes reminded of sci-fi and horror films, from The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers to the latest Men In Black, as one walks through the museum's latest exhibition.

Here's a Urs Luthi sculpture of a middle-aged man who seems normal in every way - bald head, spectacles, polo-shirt, sneakers. But he has three arms and four legs. And there's another one of him nearby, his doppelganger.

Both men look confused, as if they're unsure of what's going on. It's a look typically expressed by a screen alien parasite that had just taken over its host's body and must now learn to mobilise it. Are these men or mutants? Is this art or a prank?