FRESH - First Year Show of UEL Fine Art students
on Thursday 22nd April 2010 from 5pm
Armchair (2010)
armchair, steel wool
h 90 cm X w 85 cm X d 75 cm
Someone commented on the armchair as being 'uncanny'.
This is what I found out about it on wikipedia:
The Uncanny (Ger. Das Unheimliche -- literally, "un-home-ly") is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange.
Because the uncanny is familiar, yet strange, it often creates cognitive dissonance within the experiencing subject due to the paradoxical nature of being attracted to, yet repulsed by an object at the same time. This cognitive dissonance often leads to an outright rejection of the object, as one would rather reject than rationalize.
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