Liminal
This is a small selection of the work in the Liminal project which is due to be published in July 2024. For more details about the project, exhibition and publication fill in your details below and we'll keep you up to date.
The word Liminal means to be at or on both sides of a boundary, it refers to the beginning or start of a process. Liminal spaces are there to be moved through, like train stations and airports, they are not destinations of their own, they're the start of a journey that will take us somewhere else.
“By opting for an empty space over an object, they sought to protect that which can never be rendered visible. Rejecting any positive images that might become a Golden Calf.”
Extract from the book introduction Photographing the Void: Craters in the Clay of Being, by Peter Rollins
A journey through the murky marrow of the sacred. It is to “to strip away the intricate simulacra of clarity that infest modern philosophy and religious reflection.” It is to wake up from our enlightenment coma, and realise that the demon was Descartes all along.
Extract from, Very Little, Ultimately Nothing by David Capener
In the cupboard are cups. Commonplace objects, they are easily overlooked. But in a simple cup of tea is a tacit world of care, a framing of time and space which one person can connect to and comfort another. In the photographs I see correspondence between those humble cups, a discarded bun case, and the persons of women. A cup of tea and a bun are usually women’s tools for ministering to bodily needs, thirst and hunger. Through one lens, cups, buns and women form a vaguely perceived and taken-for-granted backdrop to the confidently austere spaces of the spirit. Through another, they come forward to complicate and enrich those spaces. Where is the line between body and spirit, anyway?
A cup implies both emptiness and fullness, absence and presence. It is nothing until full, and always-already something. Women have figured as a kind of nothing in two millennia of Christian thinking. Of course we too are always-already something. Thus, every nothing is a site in which something is already present, and if we care to stay and look, that something may become apparent. Nothing and something, emptiness and fullness, absence and presence, can co-exist. For me they are intimately entangled – indivisible, in fact.
Extract from Nothing and Something. by Bryonie Reid
Liminal Folded Poster
A promotional poster for the Liminal photo book. It cleverly folds from A1 to A4 to reveal a glimpse of the photograph inside. Comes folded flat to A4 and includes a selection of images from the book on the reverse. The text also includes the book introduction written by Peter Rollins and an extract of the essay Very Little, Ultimately nothing, by David Capener.
Buy Liminal A2 Poster
See how the poster folds from A1 to A4 to reveal a glimpse of the photograph inside.
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