Liminal

Dasha Lazo and Liliana Zaharia document the simultaneity of belonging and not-belonging through performative photography. The camera moves between them as a gesture exchanged. Collaboration becomes a way of being together.

The series proposes a performative counter-movement of coming together. The collaboration between the two artists operates within performative photography: a relational event, conditional and contingent, whose meaning is produced in the encounter rather than retrieved from it. The works hold a tension the artists have come to recognise as their shared subject: a way of dwelling in the simultaneity of belonging and not-belonging. The camera moves between them as a gesture exchanged, passed back and forth like a lighter, like a glass, like a sentence half-finished. The images shows the body at once present and withheld, doubled and dispersed, framed and refracted. The mirror, the veil, the repeated frame are deployed to deepen this sense of fracture, to hold the body in pieces. Belonging is constructed here through ritualised gesture: the lit cigarette, the poured glass, the held pose. The chair becomes a site of rehearsal, the body cycling through postures that never quite resolve, seeking for a place to settle. Each act drawing on the long small, shared practices through which intimacy is made legible. The work proposes collaboration as a performative condition, a way of being together, where the camera ceases to be an instrument of capture and becomes a third participant in the encounter.