Uncanny Objects is a collaboration between Dr Peter Blagg and Sally Robinson. Blagg’s practice focuses on everyday objects and how they have the potential to be come uncanny, alienate, and provoke uncertainty. In this collaboration, Robinson explores the relationship between the three dimensional form of objects and the two dimensional plane of a photograph. In the familiar appearance of these remade objects is the implication of everyday function, yet their remaking confounds expectations. Robinson further manipulates these objects in ways that indicate their universal applications, in constructed scenarios which suggest performance. The work explores the idea of compulsion (a body compelled to act), and the human desire to find out through play the potential of an object. All objects are the original work of Dr Pete Blagg, and were constructed/re-constructed as part of his PhD practice. All photographs are the original work of Sally Robinson. This project was exhibited at MAKE GOOD FIVE, a group exhibition at Leeds Arts University in September 2022.
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