Liminal Studies

Liminal Studies reflects on liminality as a critical space where memory, identity, and perception fragment. Through layered compositions, the work unsettles fixed realities, opening a territory where presence and histories are renegotiated.

Liminal Studies is part of a long-term project that explores transitional states as spaces where identity, memory, and perception are renegotiated. By working “between what was and what will be”, the series reflects on how instability and fragmentation challenge fixed notions of reality, offering instead a mutable space where the self is continuously reshaped.

Through collage, manual cuts, and the layering of archival and my own photographs, I create visual interruptions that mirror the discontinuities of memory and the complexity of subjectivity. These gestures destabilize the image to reveal tensions between past and present, the intimate and the collective. 

For this presentation, I have chosen images that engage with domestic objects, positioning the everyday as a site where liminality, beyond its existential dimension, becomes tangible and where the certainty of univocity dissolves into layered meanings.

The resulting compositions propose the in-between as a critical territory from which to question the boundaries of reality and the politics of presence and absence. Within the tensions of memory and silence, visibility and off-frame, identities can be reimagined and histories rewritten. 

Liminal Studies by Karla Guerrero

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