Somebody in the Liminal Space
My work, exhibited in Gallery Greulich, explained.
Liminal spaces have always fascinated me. The idea of Liminality is probably as old as humankind itself — it signifies a rite of passage, transgression, interim: from child to adult, from life to death, between dream and awakening, between determined points of time and space. The concept of Liminality lived in ancient rites, fairy tales, and myths but was first explored by anthropologists and folklorists van Gennep and Turner.
A century later, in the 2000ies it became part of new aesthetics and internet-driven culture: in books (“House of Leaves” by Mark Z. Danielewski), in movies and series (“Primer”, “Severance”, “The Langoliers”), in internet urban legends (“The Backrooms”), in music (“Interim Lovers” and other masterpieces by Einstürzende Neubauten), in videogames (“NaissanceE”, “Fugue in the Void”, “The Stanley Parable” etc.).
The main topic — even the protagonist —in the culture of Liminal Aesthetics is the space itself. An endless passage — be it hotel hall, corridor, underground floor, warehouse: empty, unoccupied, silent (all this: allegedly). Human perception concentrates on this transfer between A and B. The way is the goal.
The observer doesn’t have freedom of choice; it’s even semi-fatalistic freedom from choice. One…
