Kay Keoghs artwork takes a critical view and works on the proposition that we regulate what is reveal and what is conceal about ourselves. This has stirred an interest into the sense of the uncanny, where secrecy is disguised with openness, a marked turn in general from reassurance toward a fascination with anxiety and angst. This generates a kind of negative aesthetic within her work.
Member Since 2014The uncanny is something fearful and frightening, and as such it has been neglected in art history . But Modernism marks a turn in a general toward a fascination with the ugly, the grotesque: a kind of “negative” aesthetics. Freud’s essay The Uncanny makes a contribution to this, by examining what we might call the aesthetics of the “fearful,” the aesthetics of anxiety.
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