ABSTRACT
In The Uncanny, Sigmund Freud described the work of Austrian psychoanalyst and close companion Otto Rank and his exploration of the double: He has gone into the connections the “double” has with reflections in mirrors, with shadows, guardian spirits, with the belief in the soul and with the fear of death. Work with the double in art may be seen as engagement with this place of the other, enactment with a figure or screen onto which we may project our desires. Pierre Molinier’s work has been described as a “suture of photography and painting”. He used long exposure times, which resulted in double exposures and other generative chance encounters. Sometimes he would double the negatives or alter them, enhancing certain areas with graphite while discreetly cutting away or slenderizing others. Molinier explored the fluidity of sexuality and experimented with the malleability of identity and gender.
