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The Garden of the Uncanny Valley by Frederika Dalwood is a large-scale four-piece artwork – and is being sold via our first Artworld Deadstock prize competition. Dalwood’s piece isn’t lacking in value or visibility, it simply wasn’t absorbed by the usual systems. For £5, your institution can enter the competition, and with the correct answer, potentially add this work to your collection.
What happens when collecting is reimagined, not driven by scarcity or status? What if artists doesn’t need to win a spot at Frieze for their work to be considered? What if a major public collection could acquire a significant contemporary work… for a fiver?
About the artwork
Frederika Dalwood’s four-panel work The Garden of the Uncanny Valley presents new interdisciplinary works that explore the complexities of existing in a world we can never fully trust.
Comprised of four large format prints mounted behind acrylic glass, the images are developed from a synthesis of photography, 8mm video footage stills, digital manipulation and printed materials. The composition is meticulously arranged to create a landscape that references multiple time periods and geographical places. Presenting images behind acrylic glass subverts any visual associations to the natural world by using a structure that is clearly manmade and the reflective surface makes a connection to the screen and therefore digital media.
The Garden of the Uncanny Valley by Frederika Dalwood
Digital print face mounted on acrylic glass, in four parts
Together: 168×500 cm
Executed 2023
About the artist
Frederika Dalwood is a British artist whose practice explores the uncanny intersections of the natural and the artificial. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the Slade School of Art, and has exhibited throughout Europe, including her debut solo exhibition ‘Actual Thing’ at Modern Animals, Zurich. In 2023 she received the Sarabande fund for emerging artists. She currently lives and works in Berlin.
About Artworld Deadstock
Artworld Deadstock is a marketplace celebrating creative projects of all kinds – practical, impractical, and everything in between. We provide a platform for work that may not fit into the conventional art market.
Co-founded by Jo McGarry and Will Dalton, Artworld Deadstock was motivated by a frustration with the current art market. We want to create a space for unconventional, experimental, and fun projects, accessible to all. Every item is designed and crafted by an artist, and profits to go support their work.