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Some images from our ongoing Unsettlements exhibition at The Lab, Stillpoint Spaces, Berlin.

Artists: David Franklin, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Kevin Lucbert, Inken Reinert, Craig Stewart.

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Unsettlements

A group exhibition of visual art at ‘The Lab’, Stillpoint Spaces Berlin. Feb 2015 & ongoing.

[Stillpoint Spaces is a psychoanalytical counselling and research space in Neukölln, Berlin. The Lab is a programme and physical hub where psychoanalysis is met with art and culture in an open and experimental environment.]

– Considering the field of psychoanalysis as intrinsically linked to that of visual art, Unsettlements presents a selection of works which may be viewed as resulting from unconscious or automatic patterns of thought. As physical manifestations of ideas, feelings or experiences, such artworks are able to explore and illuminate areas of the psyche accessible by wanderings of the mind, yet difficult to locate via conscious examination.

This exhibition is particularly concerned with artworks which may be seen to at once produce disconcerting or dissonant atmospheres, while inviting internal exploration and emotional connection. Of particular interest are works relating to the Freudian concept of the ‘Unheimlich’, that is to say the unease or fear sometimes provoked by the seemingly familiar.

The context of the psychoanalytical environment generates the opportunity for the artworks here to be viewed and considered in an analytical sense as part of seminars, workshops and other events held in the space. The purpose of the exhibition is therefore not to contribute solely to the overall ambience of the centre, but to provoke meaningful dialogue between the experimental activities occurring in the centre and the artworks themselves.