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At London’s Freud Museum, the artist Cathie Pilkington has made a ghostly intervention

British artist Cathie Pilkington has created a new exhibition, 'Housekeeper,' at London's Freud Museum. The installation features sculptural interventions placed among Sigmund Freud's personal artifacts and antiquities, imagining the ghostly presence of the family's long-serving housekeeper, Paula Fichtl, subtly disrupting the order of the psychoanalytic shrine.

The exhibition continues the museum's long-standing tradition of inviting contemporary artists to respond to its unique atmosphere and history. Pilkington's work engages with Freudian concepts like the uncanny and gives agency to a previously overlooked domestic figure, offering a subversive, feminist commentary on the preserved domestic and intellectual space.