Jenny Lu artist statement
In her work Jenny Lu uses obsessive repetition to expose the unsettling. Images of ordinary, familiar situations are twisted to make normal activities seem askew, and the viewer becomes aware of watching what maybe one should not see. The uncanny is at the heart of the work, a sense of the world not being right. Beneath the surface there is the certainty of being in the wrong place all the time, of wanting to escape but recognising the impossibility of escaping from what is not outside but within us. In Jenny Lu’s work the home is no longer the place of normality, of safety. Her videos evoke the uncanny in our everyday life and leave the audience with a growing sense of unease.
In her work Jenny Lu uses obsessive repetition to expose the unsettling. Images of ordinary, familiar situations are twisted to make normal activities seem askew, and the viewer becomes aware of watching what maybe one should not see. The uncanny is at the heart of the work, a sense of the world not being right. Beneath the surface there is the certainty of being in the wrong place all the time, of wanting to escape but recognising the impossibility of escaping from what is not outside but within us. In Jenny Lu’s work the home is no longer the place of normality, of safety. Her videos evoke the uncanny in our everyday life and leave the audience with a growing sense of unease.
