Eleanore Keys

As an artist I am interested in the relationships between body, space, and self. This body of work implements figurative bodies within familiar interior spaces, these spaces have then been recontextualized via an uncanny and unsettling use of aesthetics. Conceptually ‘the uncanny’ is used to curate this visual experience by representing the antithesis of psychological certainty; doubt, and uncertainty, culminating in a disorientating psychological space of unease within these paintings. The objective of creating uncanny effects is to curate a disconnect between, the body as object, the space it is situated in and the viewer. Through this lens of ‘the uncanny’ my paintings aim to reconfigure relationships between body and space where the uncanny phenomenon acts as a reference to notions of comfort and discomfort. Thus, the recurrent motif of visual uncertainty connecting these paintings intends to foster both a sense of enquiry, repulsion and introspection within the viewer.