2022

"I see only from one point, but in my existence, I am seen from everywhere."    (Jacques Lacan)

In this series of photographs I employ mythological, psychoanalytic and philosophical readings of the concept of Das Unheimliche (the uncanny)  as a starting point for visual reinterpretation. 
One of the foundational contexts for this concept emerges within Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic discourse. Freud directly linked Das Unheimliche to what he called primitive animistic thinking, and the role of nature constitutes an important foundation for this work: it speaks through visual elements it possesses, establishing a coded language of its own.  

The appearance of the doppelgangers in the second part of this photographic series questions the assumed distinction between the original and the copy, establishing a new layer of strangeness. There is uncertainty about which of the two figures is the first and authentic one, and whether such a division into the first and (non-belonging, foreign, and strange) second is even possible.

 Part II of this series is Das Unheimliche