Throughout art history, art has often had its most important task to portray the beautiful, the divine, the perfect – everything that is pleasant to look at.
In other periods, art has instead focused on the ugly and provocative, by which the spectator is repelled.
This series of pictures is situated somewhere between the two poles: it may not be immediately obvious whether a work is really cosy or eerie. The pictures are uncanny – or what is typically called “unheimliche”.