hairy eye ball

source: adelinedemonseignat
‘Hairy Eye Balls’ are the earliest ‘creaptures’ – creature-sculptures – that attempt to subvert the familiar through the experience of ‘the uncanny’ (Freud, Das Unheimliche, 1919). With the simple combination of glass and fur, these aim to provoke tensions between the threatening and the safe, the animate and the inanimate, while remaining on the threshold between the familiar and the unfamiliar. Fur, unconventional because of its suspended condition between life and death, simultaneously repulses and seduces. Pressed behind glass, it suggests a potential tactile experience one can only undergo by ‘touching with the eyes’.
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source: ronchinigallery
Adeline de Monseignat (b.1987) is a Dutch-Monegasque artist who lives and works in London. Her sculptural, installation-based and paper work comes from her interest in the Uncanny, the contact and the origin. The artist holds a BA in Language and Culture from UCL (2009), and an MA in Fine Art from City & Guilds of London Art School (2011).

Her interest lies in making the familiar strange and retaining tensions between the threatening and the safe, the animate and inanimate, while remaining on the threshold between the known and the strange.

Adeline de Monseignat work often offers an unusual kind of physical and sensorial interaction. Her pieces often embark on a life of their own and tell stories within stories, which enhances their sense of life and presence.