Opening: Thursday 29 March, 6pm
Exhibition dates: until April the 14th. Gallery opens 12-5pm, Thurs to Sunday.
Uncanny is the inaugural solo exhibition of daguerreotypes, tintypes, Polaroid's and injet prints by WA photographer Daniel Nevin. The works in this exhibition are the result of Nevin's reading of an essay written by Freud on the subject of the uncanny (the term he used was "Das Unheimlich" or "unhomely").
"Freud believed that uncanny feelings come when we as adults are confronted
with the possibility that a discarded childhood belief may have been correct.
For example, a belief in a doll that is alive, or a denial of death, may have
been a comforting concept as a child. But if we encounter such things in reality
they are very disturbing,"
"Photographs, especially portraits, have many of these characteristics.
They duplicate us, they exist after our deaths, they have positive and negative
forms."Daniel Nevin
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