When carried out without critical reflection, the animation of old photographs and the excessive restoration of historical works serve this sense of pathological nostalgia; they attempt to cover over loss, fragility, trauma, and every historical trace, producing an easy, seamless fantasy of
For the uncanny, it would be fitting to say that in art it is “the aesthetics of small deviations rather than grand explanations”; it shifts space by a millimeter and reveals what has been repressed in the form of a subtle leakage.
