Jason Langer Possession (2013)

Freud famously associated the idea of the “uncanny” with uncertainty. More than just producing an experience of fear, the uncanny requires an encounter with a facsimile of the real. Puppets, automatons, mannequins, and human doppelgängers of all kinds exist at the intersection of the real and the imaginary, and in their life-likeness they can disturb our sense of what we consider familiar and ordinary. Just so, for his Possession series Jason Langer offers the spectator an uncanny intimacy with objects that appear life-like, that blur the line between the animate and the inanimate.