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"Limen" series #Px001

Artists

Gan Aleksey

Year2023
MaterialOil on canvas
Size60 × 79,5 cm
400 000 ₽
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Описание

The Latin word limen means border, crossing, but also a house, a kind of transition space. Liminality is a physiological, neurological, and metaphysical term denoting a "threshold", a transitional state between two stages of human or community development. Such a state is assumed by a person in the process of initiation rituals, which consolidate him in a new status or position. Liminality is also associated with changes in values and norms, identity and self-awareness.
 

It presents the beginning of a series of "Limen" paintings made during the transition period, which themselves are thresholds or houses, illusory spaces of possible transition. The Limen series inherits a multi-layered technique from the Places series, but the work with acrylic in Limen is much more diverse. Scuff marks, scratches, and markings are used as full-fledged visual elements that contribute to the authenticity of the document.

 

“I wanted to find and keep in them the duality of this time: openness and tightness, spatiality and flatness of the surface, structure and blurriness. They are at the same time calm and excited, balanced and rapidly mobile. They are beautiful and painful, like a freshly healing wound at the moment of initiation by time. The permanent liminality in which we live requires the acquisition of reference points, symbols, and tools for passing through this involuntary initiation. Such footholds are unique to each person, and the works from the Limen series can be the beginning of a journey to identify them, as tools for recovery.”