Abstract:

This study is based on the interpretation of the data regarding the meanings and analysis of the concept of uncanny (das unheimleiche) and its traditional definitions up to the present, in relation to home / space practices produced within the field of art. On the basis of the linguistic origin of this versatile term uncanny, its association with the home space has been addressed, as well as the feeling of uncanny with the loss of the feeling of being in the house, depending on the state of anxiety under certain negative conditions, based upon the state of human being in peace in the home space. In this sense, the most familiar, closest place to the house; changing meanings and images have been handled as a space that can become uncanny over the state of how it can transform into a space alienated to human by elements such as memory, time, conditions created by the outside world. For the reproduction practices of the house / space in contemporary art; Gregor Schneider, Rachel Whiteread, Paulette Phillips and Michael Landy's works, which are constructed on the home / space, are considered within the meaning of the linguistic equivalents of the concept of uncannyness. 

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