Limen
What is the boundary between creation and dissolution?
Every creative act is a crossing.
We move between opposites, between the need to shape the world and the awareness of its dissolution. This photographic series is born from the conflict between Eros and Thanatos, between the desire it generates and the force that dissolves.
Limen is the threshold, the point where something exists and disappears at the same moment.
It’s the breath held before a jump, the vertigo that precedes the abandonment, the exact moment when the present falls apart and becomes memory. In the language of art and psyche, Eros and Thanatos do not oppose each other, but they intertwine, merge, become confused.
Every creation bears within itself the seed of its own end, each end regrows into a new form.
Freud spoke of these two forces as the deep motors of the psyche: the first drives us to create bonds, the second to dissolve them. Rainer Maria Rilke, on the other hand, saw death as “the side of life that is not directed towards us”. Perhaps photography itself is a liminal act, an attempt to hold back what is destined to fade away, or to find in dissolution another form of presence.
These images question the boundary between creation and loss, between the body that moves and the absence that touches it, between matter and shadow.
If art is born of this conflict, then my gaze is directed right there: at the invisible point where Eros and Thanatos touch each other.
Edition: limited to 10 copies each, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Bright White fine art paper in 45x30cm format.
They are all accompanied by their own certificate of authenticity and signed on the back.
Year of production: from 2022, on going
