Sentences with word «uncanniness»

Despite a seeming familiarity with the objects» figurativeness there is a sense of disquiet and subtle uncanniness inherent in Jaeger's work which challenges the viewer's relationship to their own physicality, their surrounding and their consciousness.

Over the past dozen years, Alex Da Corte has developed a highly distinctive practice, one focused primarily on fashioning (and / or refashioning) overripe bits of commodity culture and then putting conceptual pressure on them until whatever uncanniness they contain starts leaking out.

Openings at the new ICA, The Bass and PAMM played out against a backdrop of geographic uncanniness and atmospheric uncertainty

Via her expressionistic brush, Judith Linhares teases latent absurdity and uncanniness from hackneyed pictorial genres.

But it remains relevant in light of both Duiker's suicide in 2005 at the age of 30, and its own uncanniness.

The artist has described these spaces as possessing «an overwhelming uncanniness; devoid of people, stripped of most, if not all, of the façade signage, they have the feeling of eerily deserted scenes from war torn countries or derelict inner cities.»

The dissection of the upper space along vertical axes gives rise to a new form of perception, one that takes the human body as the reference point for its articulation, yet also adds a sense of uncanniness through the disproportional ceiling height.

Louise Bourgeois (1911 — 2010) invented a new kind of language for sculpture — a language that was essentially psychoanalytic, uniquely capable of expressing oedipal struggle, ominous forces of repression, sexual symbolism and material uncanniness.

Employing high - key color, a subtly cartoon - influenced approach to rendering shapes and spaces, and a heroic attention to detail, Cerletty imparts startling uncanniness to seemingly quotidian objects and scenes.

Creatures that tranquilize my responses, awe me, make me know a manifest uncanniness of identity,» Saltz states.

This doubling of images creates an automatic uncanniness.

What is enclosed in these faceless houses may simply be the opacity and uncanniness of being in the world.

«We predict that uncanniness will interfere with participants» normal empathetic response within this scenario,» MacDorman said.

It may be uncomfortable to begin with, chatting away earnestly to an LED screen with a grainy approximation of your loved one's mug, but rest assured, soon enough the uncanniness will fade and you'll be holidaying together on the sunny beaches of cyberspace.

Whether it's James Franco's fantastic rendition of Tommy Wiseau or the uncanniness of the overall accuracy of the reshot Room scenes, it's hard not to find something to love about this movie.

Whether it's James Franco's fantastic rendition of Tommy Wiseau or the uncanniness of the overall accuracy of the reshot Room scenes, it's hard not to find something to love

But mostly, Garland builds up the uncanniness and the dread factor of the world inside The Shimmer.

In fact, the uncanniness is the only reservation I have about I don't feel at home in this world anymore.

There is an uncanniness that emerges with his presence in these scenes that corresponds to my own sense of the strangeness of psychic life.

A sense of uncanniness is played out in our recognition of the scenes, taken from the eighteenth century Fragonard series, «Progress of Love,» and here given the Shonibare treatment — headless figures with skin colour of indeterminate origin are clad in the colonial Dutch wax fabrics.

Artists have nonetheless continued to engage with the intellectual and psychological potency, the uncanniness and visceral power, of the sculpted body's ability to resemble life.

«Even in front of his most realistic work, you often find yourself wrestling not so much with lived reality, as with the sheer — very real — uncanniness... read more... «Proto - Bohemian Gustave Courbet arrives at the Metropolitan»

The sculptures pointedly conjure a feeling of uncanniness: as suggested by the German psychiatrist Ernst Jentsch in his pioneering 1906 essay on the subject, the Unheimlich may be triggered by too close a resemblance between art and nature, and the observer's subsequent discovery that what once seemed life - like was, in fact, an automaton.

always manages to magically transform [matters of the everyday] into fantastic events with a sense of humour, offering open but pungent implications that reveal the uncanniness of existence -LSB-...] also a savvy mobilizer of collective actions -LSB-...] encourages sharing among participants to produce a common sense of cooperation and creativity.