Emplacement is an installation proposal conceived for the former home of the Surrealist art collector Edward James, a site closely associated with works by Salvador Dalí and René Magritte. The project draws a clear conceptual lineage from Magritte’s Golconda, in which repeated human figures hover improbably in front of an otherwise conventional bourgeois façade, destabilising the distinction between the familiar and the uncanny.

The installation features paper figures suspended by nearly invisible monofilament line, partially emerging from the floor and interspersed among an existing display of Surrealist artworks. These inserted forms do not assert themselves as discrete objects; rather, they inhabit the space ambiguously, appearing as if caught between states of presence and disappearance. As viewers move through the installation, their bodies become implicated within this suspended field, activating the work through embodied, spatial experience.

By subtly disrupting expectations of gravity, scale, and occupancy, the installation produces an uncanny estrangement of the domestic interior. A liminal perceptual space is opened in which the figural is accessed indirectly, not through representation but through implication. The work resists narrative closure, instead inviting a phenomenological encounter in which meaning arises through movement, proximity, and perceptual uncertainty.