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SIMON COOPER: Memory, Dwelling, Ruins: the House at 26 Surf St.
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Merricks beach house installation. Memory, Dwelling, Ruins: the House at 26 Surf St. Amidst all this containment however, reside anxiety, contradiction, and the threat of entropy. No wonder then that Freud’s term the ‘uncanny’ – the unsettling leaking of the strange into the realm of the familiar, stems from the German unheimlich. In the late 1920’s Walter Benjamin had discovered a liberatory energy in the Surrealist use of objects and things that were culturally designated as obsolete. Poised ...The hou...