The Uncanny - Mike Kelley

In The Uncanny, Mike Kelley explores the eerie feeling of recognition through realist polychrome figurative sculpture from ancient Egypt to the present, juxtaposed with personal collections of common objects (The Harems). Mike Kelley’s own seminal text on the uncanny is here presented alongside a comprehensive survey of the uncanny in art by John C. Welchman and an essay by Christoph Grunenberg examining the historical staging of spectacles of the uncanny.