design duo<\/a> describe this shift as a move toward empathy, where an object gains intensity once it exceeds its expected role. The effect is immediate: objects hold attention through attitude and proportion rather than purpose alone.<\/p>\n![\"haas](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/haas-brothers-uncanny-valley-museum-art-design-mad-new-york-designboom-02.jpg\")
Uncanny Valley, Haas Brothers, exhibition view. image \u00a9 designboom<\/p>\n
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systems that generate form<\/p>\n
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Process drives the exhibition forward. The Accretion works build surfaces through repeated applications that echo patterns found in coral, fungus, and mineral growth. Paintings follow a similar logic, with layers added through controlled sequences that accumulate into dense, tactile fields. Beaded plants extend this approach through mathematical structures, where stitch patterns and proportional systems guide the final form. Algorithmic landscapes draw from early digital graphics, producing environments that develop through code.<\/p>\n
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Across these works, form emerges through rule-based procedures that continue to operate as the objects take shape. Growth, repetition, and variation remain visible, giving each piece a sense of duration. The exhibition builds a world where making is ongoing, where systems continue to act within the finished work.<\/p>\n
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Uncanny Valley, Haas Brothers, exhibition view. image \u00a9 designboom<\/p>\n
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the uncanny as a spatial condition<\/p>\n
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The title points to a perceptual threshold. Many objects sit between recognition and uncertainty, drawing on familiar references while maintaining distance. Fur, bronze, glass, and ceramic surfaces suggest bodies, plants, or tools, yet resist stable identification. Proportions shift slightly. Symmetry breaks along one axis. Details accumulate beyond expectation.<\/p>\n
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This tension produces a sustained attentiveness. The viewer registers something known, then pauses at the point where that recognition begins to slip. The works hold this position without resolving it, allowing perception to move across their surfaces and forms in a continuous loop.<\/p>\n
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Uncanny Valley, Haas Brothers, exhibition view. image \u00a9 designboom<\/p>\n
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objects in relation<\/p>\n
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Seen together, the works establish a network of correspondences that extends across the gallery. Repetition appears across different materials and scales. A clustered ceramic surface finds an echo in a painted field. A beaded structure aligns with a digital pattern. These connections move through the exhibition, linking pieces through rhythm and variation.<\/p>\n
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The installation supports this reading. Spacing allows each object to maintain its presence while still participating in a larger system. Movement through the galleries becomes a process of tracing these relationships, where attention shifts through shared structures and gestures. The exhibition operates as a field in motion, where no single object fixes the experience.<\/p>\n
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