Somewhere, Not Here

2022 | cardboard/projection | installation

Liminal space is an experience of the in-between and a site where the familiar and unknown meet. Individuals encounter liminality in a variety of means, all existing in the realms of an emotional, physical, or metaphorical space. One may refuse to move on from such an existence, entering a state of limbo disconnected from the rest of their life. Memory and reality are lost here; their original context being muddled to the point of becoming an unknown. In these instances, liminality becomes a period of one unwilling to move forward, but too far gone to go back. These transitional spaces take hold and warp the reality of existence, leaving one to interpret the fabricated state they occupy.

Somewhere, Not Here is an installation that explores a narrative rooted in the in-betweens. The exhibition acts as a rendering of liminal space through a setting experienced in light and shadow. Illustrative sculptures, bedsheet ghosts and shadow-puppetry show fractures of a story with an overarching theme rooted in the threshold of intermediacy. The environment is manipulated to support a narrative display that allows for varying interpretations by those who inhabit it.