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What differentiates the familiar and the foreign, the self-same and its other? The foreign may be, as Mary Douglas wrote of dirt, nothing other than ‘matter out of place’, the known transported out of its customary context and made strange, abstracted by its new home, like a bird spotted inside an airport or someone wearing camouflage in the city. In Chimera, Adam Cruces interrogates the slippage between the absurd and the everyday by staging total environments in which these displaced entities appear as interlopers, threats or eruptions of the uncanny. The objects of these encounters – the …