'The Esc Collective' presents, 'Liminal'.
'The Esc Collective' presents, 'Liminal'.
Liminal is the space situated in the in-between or at the threshold; it is the barely perceptible and the intermediate state, phase or condition. Liminality resonates within the exhibition space as an Edwardian building constructed on a man-made island on the river Shannon, accessed by the public by boat or means of the Sarsfield Bridge. It alludes to old imperial cultures, romantic memories of a bygone era and the preservation of the old within the new.
Liminal is the first exhibition by The Escape Collective in aid of St. Vincent de Paul's St.Patrick's Hostel, a Limerick based charity who provide food, shelter, and care for those who reside within the threshold, in the in-between space of Limerick City.
The Photographs are just some of those exhibited by me in the Exhibition.
My work explores the neither here nor there; the betwixt and between positions laid out by Victor Turner.
The old decrepit buildings and windows in my work represent the "midpoint of transition in a status-sequence between two point."The buildings and windows are the antithesis of structure referred to in Turner's essays. The idea of dissolving structures and its dangers are in fact a source of structure, much like chaos and order. Turner refers to liminal and liminality purely from an anthropological perspective, social structures, communitas and rituals. I try to go beyond this and use the Latin "limen" which means threshold - that of a house, as a metaphor to allude to Turners idea's.
The old decrepit buildings and windows in my work represent the "midpoint of transition in a status-sequence between two point."The buildings and windows are the antithesis of structure referred to in Turner's essays. The idea of dissolving structures and its dangers are in fact a source of structure, much like chaos and order. Turner refers to liminal and liminality purely from an anthropological perspective, social structures, communitas and rituals. I try to go beyond this and use the Latin "limen" which means threshold - that of a house, as a metaphor to allude to Turners idea's.
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