Unheimlich | Ulrich Egger

The exhibition follows a line dominating the entire research of Ulrich Egger: the feeling of alarm or estrangement that is inherent in contemporary architecture (hence the title, a term taken from Freudian theory to describe the dark side of familiar environments and situations).

The artworks allude to a hidden secret, a sinister, disturbing potential that reveals the constructs of power under-lying the practice of building and living.

The post-industrial environment of Manifattura Tabacchi welcomes the work of Egger who, at first glance, indulges its visual specificity, sometimes in an almost mimetic way, then referring to a close encounter with the materials, the structures, the narrative that contains them.