Explore Stephanie Pflaum's 'Haut (Skin)' Exhibition at the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna

This exhibition features the work 'Skin' by Austrian artist Stephanie Pflaum, which uses needlework and assemblage to explore the multifaceted concept of skin as a protective yet revealing tissue. The artwork draws parallels with Freud's theory of the uncanny, juxtaposing delicate surface appearances with hidden biological or repressed content.

The oeuvre of Austrian artist Stephanie Pflaum (b. 1971) spans from painting to assemblage, creating symbolic object and space installations. Her work 'Skin' is conceived for the Showroom Berggasse 19 and relates to the exhibition 'The Uncanny. Sigmund Freud and Art'. Skin, as a multi-layered organic tissue, embodies the human condition, revealing hidden contents while protectively covering the obvious. This duality mirrors Freud’s interpretation of the Uncanny, which he attributed to both familiar and repressed material, stemming from the word 'heimlich' and its opposite 'unheimlich'. Pflaum's detailed needlework conveys these inherent opposites – resistance and vulnerability, becoming and fading – and aligns with Freud’s assertion that the uncanny arises from the unknown. The seemingly pretty fiction of 'Skin', adorned with pearls and gemstones, is broken upon discerning its underlying elements: organs with blood supply, hairy set pieces, and softly shimmering embryos.

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