LIMINALITY
‘[A FRIENDLY ABYSS]’
“All is abyss — dream, act, desire, or word! I dread my sleep like some enormous hole
full of vague horror, leading to no goal.” Charles Baudelaire
If you’re not careful and you “Noclip” out of reality, you’ll end up in a never-ending
expanse, a rabbit hole of free floating anxiety enveloped in the architecture of negative
space, forced to negotiate the uncanny psychogeography of the liminal edgelands.
“What is to be done with these enormous voids, with their imprecise limits and vague
definition? Art’s reaction… is to preserve these alternative, strange spaces.”
Ignasi de Solà-Morales
Liminality is an anthropological term describing the ambiguity or disorientation that
occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, marking a person’s transition from one
point in their life to another. Liminal Space on the other hand is a transitional territory
that implies the presence of people simultaneously pushing a strong sense of isolation,
leading us inexorably towards the friendly abyss.
“Life is a passageway, with no fixed beginning or destination.” Do-Ho Suh
When you’re interacting with a liminal space you’re quite literally standing on the threshold
between two realities. The interfacial landscape can also be a place of possibility, mystery
and beauty.
Artists:
Ashley Scott Fitzgerald
Ben Thorn
Bjørn Hatleskog
Caroline Gregory
Dean Powel
Daniel Rozenhall
Dimitris Batsis
Domenec Tagliabue
Export Import
Flange Zoo
Inga Tillere
Jaime Valtierra
Jamie Dyson
Johny Brown
Kevin Quigley
Li Li Ren
Lisa McKendrick
Luke Jordan
Marie-Therese Docherty
Martin Sexton
M a t e k o i
Minerva Carvalho
Monika Tobel
Oliver Baggott
Phill Wilson-Perkin
Sarah Sparkes
Sean McLusky
Siobhan McAuley
Sten Backman
The Hungry Ghost
Wuzza CG
Yev Kazannik
Launch event
Thursday August 24th
6 – 9pm
Dates
Exhibition Dates
Launch event
Thursday August 24th
6-9pm
With performances by :
Main Gallery –
M a t e k o i
Ground Floor –
Luke Jordan / Kevin Quigley
Garden –
‘The Society is a Hole’ (Performance/Installation)
Johny Brown
WuzzaCG
2nd event
Saturday August 26th
12noon – 9pm
With performances by :
Main Gallery –
Flange Zoo
Ground Floor –
Luke Jordan / Kevin Quigley
First Floor –
Caroline Gregory / Monika Tobel
Garden –
‘The Society is a Hole’ (Performance/Installation)
The Hungry Ghost
Export Import (Import orchestra)
SHOW RUNS
24th- 30th August 2023
Tuesday – Saturday
12 – 6pm
CLOSED
Sunday / Monday
Artists
Ashley Scott Fitzgerald
Ben Thorn
Bjørn Hatleskog
Caroline Gregory
Dean Powel
Daniel Rozenhall
Dimitris Batsis
Domenec Tagliabue
Export Import
Flange Zoo
Inga Tillere
Jaime Valtierra
Jamie Dyson
Johny Brown
Kevin Quigley
Li Li Ren
Lisa McKendrick
Luke Jordan
Marie-Therese Docherty
Martin Sexton
M a t e k o i
Minerva Carvalho
Monika Tobel
Oliver Baggott
Phill Wilson-Perkin
Sarah Sparkes
Sean McLusky
Siobhan Mc Auley
Sten Backman
The Hungry Ghost
WuzzaCG
Yev Kazannik
Information
Artists Details
Information of works
Ashley Scott Fitzgerald
Ghost Guardian
Mixed media collage on canvas
2022
Price
£1000
Ghost merchant 1
Medium mixed media collage on canvas
2023
Price
£250
Ghost merchant 2
Medium: mixed media collage on canvas
2023
Price
£250
Description of work
My current work reflects exploring a sense of ghosts on transient journeys between life and death using a technique called palimpsest. This is a process of creating an object or in my case a piece of art work taken from one purpose and reused for another, creating layer’s of transparencies between different times with endless transformations.
I have longed worked from a point of recycling and layering using collage techniques as a form of taking dead matter and re-creating into living matter, exploring the in between giving new form and life. As seen in current work they relate to mythical golem creatures which have a ghost like appearance as they have been raised to life from past mixed media materials.
Ben Thorn
Ghost
Noise, Black/White pixels on screen, 256x 256 upscaled
2023
Price
£1000
Description of work
The gallery is haunted. Art on walls that live and promptly die like falling dead flies, with tombstones plaques. A black screen, a white painted wall.
Bjørn Hatleskog
‘Ectoplasmic Demi-Sefirot’
Collage on plywood, Electric motors, Stage Lighting Controller.
2023
Bjørn Hatleskog’s audio and kinetic art explores the nature of feedback loops, noise and
interference and their application via mechanical automation, occupying the space in-between
electro-acoustic music and sound sculptural bricolage. He also manages the record label
Adaadat and is the curator at Surgery.Gallery.
Caroline Gregory and Monika Tobel
‘Damhan-allaidh, Damhan-allaidh’ (Spider, Spider)
A sensory installation and live allurement
2023
Caroline Gregory is a London-born artist who recently migrated to the coastal town of St Leonards on Sea. Her live work offers audiences the experience of collective participation. Often her work hinges on notions of survival, transition, and healing through nature. Her interventions grow from an exploration of the changes and transformations that often follow profound life crises. Persistent, enduring threads are around the gathering of seemingly dissonant pieces, creating new ways of seeing and experiencing, and promoting rich and diverse human exchange through ritual and ceremony.
@carolineagregory
Monika Tobel is a London based Hungarian artist interested in interspecies communication and nature-culture dichotomy. Her work consist of performance, video and sound alongside installations. The main focus of her practice is to investigate the possibilities of non-lingual communication between different entities, and the potentials of information exchange via scents, sounds, touch, and movement alongside deep listening practices. She is currently studying for a doctorate at the University of East London.
Dean Powell
‘This Too Shall Pass’
Bakelite telephone, Bela microcomputer, proximity sensor, electret microphone, 2 speaker cones, plywood plinth.
2023
Price
£900
Description of work
An interactive sound work that repurposes a 1950s Bell Manufacturing Company telephone to engage with the perceptive process of change. The work aims to cultivate a self-reflexive mode of attention, by displacing sound in time and subjecting it to a recursive disintegration that foregrounds the listener’s experience of and relationship to the dissolution of sounds that have recently passed through echoic memory.
Daniel Rozenhall & Sten Backman
Dance of the Aberrant
Video Installation
2023
Daniel Rozenhall is a composer and record producer, based in Stockholm, Sweden, who has
worked actively at the EMS studio and at the organisation Fylkingen in Stockholm since the
late 1990s. Sten Backman is a visual artist, composer and graphic designer, also based in
Stockholm. His fields of work include many areas, such as branding and identity, editorial,
interactive applications, product design, websites, exhibition design, music videos and
record covers. Backman collaborates regularily with J.G Thirlwell (aka Foetus).
Dimitris Batsis
Chant
Sound Composition
2023
Description of work
The piece was originally created to evoke a tense and alarming, while preserving a welcoming and mysterious mood. Halfway through, the strings emerge from the low-end frequency drones, intending to indicate an eerie, otherworldly atmosphere.One could argue that the composition exhibits a centrifugal trait as the horror-like strings repetitively sprawl out, aiming to convey a sense of peculiar and hyperreal territorial formation.
Dimitris Batsis is a sound artist and academic researcher. His research covers the field of biological functions in relation to new media and sciences, as well as sound design and interactive systems. His creative output spans sound installations, performances and video art, utilising audiovisual applications and coding. He develops sound works through studio practices that are primarily rooted in exploring the interconnectedness of sound and image within the domain of audiovisual perception. He holds a PhD in Biomusic (the transformation of biological signals into sound art through research in new mediums) from the Department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences at the University of Ioannina, as well as an MA in Contemporary Arts and Music from Oxford Brookes University. Additionally, he creates and releases music (in both physical and digital formats) under the alias Dans Mon Salon [dã] [mɔ̃] [salɔ̃] (French for ‘in my living room’) since the mid-90s. The moniker serves as a metaphor, a mindset where the personal relationship with electronic music making comes to actualisation.
Domenec Tagliablue
>>>>dogs<<<<
Holographic fan, TFT screen, steel stands.
2023
Description of work
Slideshow of custom AI generated dogs showcasing the visual effect ‘tapetum lucidum’, shown in a holographic fan. and TFT screen.
Price
£5500
Domenec Tagliablue
metal_gear_feelings
Two Oakcastle burner phones, two usb-c cables.
2023
Price
£900
Description of work
A video scene from an original space opera, reproduced in two burner phones attached side by side on a wall.
EXPORT IMPORT
Performance
(Part of – Society is a Hole, installation / performance)
EXPORT IMPORT are performing as part of ‘Society is a Hole’ installation / performance work devised by artist Kevin Quigley
EXPORT IMPORT – are a multi instrumentalist London 10 piece making powerful dissonant music and creating mesmerizing ritualistic live events, this is the document of a performance at Gallery46 Whitechapel in November 2022.
Accompanying film can be viewed at – www.export-import-ltd.co.uk
‘Relentless electrical currents to ancient naked skulls. Synthetic-crucifixion of sensory perceptions, a trip in elephantine space, a crack where the crowd pours in inmates loaded into Cyber-Channels, threaded into psychic dilapidation. The digg-ing hypnosis. Mathematized forms eclipse, a needle. forever grappling in disintegrating terrain. lust, hungry at the trough of boundless expanse, contorted and framed into a-micro-slitt. Claws tangled into a fourier-transform of straight lines.’
Digital Album out on Bandcamp – https://export-import.
Flange Zoo
The Abyss Stares Back…
Performance/Installation
Mixed Media
2023
Description of work
Do not fight the monsters that live in the aether
They are much like your own
Look into their dimensions
Befriending and enticing
The Terror is only your perception
From beyond the Flange
Flange Zoo’s human emissaries are currently Calum F Kerr and Phillip Raymond Goodman
Inga Tillere
Solar Return (triptych)
Mixed media
2023
Description of work:
Solargrams with cardboard pinhole camera made from the Tantric Dakini Oracle deck box facing due south. The Tantric Dakini Oracle is a system of psychic divination developed by Nik Douglas, a scholar of Sanskrit and Tibetan, and artist Penny Slinger, based on their work in the Ranipur Jharial Temple of Orissa, India. The temple contains stone carvings of 64 Dakinis, ancient symbolic representations of the feminine principles of intuitive wisdom. Each pinhole exposure charts the passage of the Sun through the sky for two weeks following the lunar calendar (from New / Full Moon to Full / New Moon), integrating masculine and feminine, manifestation and intuition, vitality and the divine dreamer. The Dakinis are thought of as the guardians of the deeper mysteries of the soul, revealing the secrets of inner transformation. From a black hole (pinhole aperture) a new reality is born.
Inga Tillere is a Latvian-born visual artist based in London working with traditional, alternative, camera-less and experimental photography and film. Seeking for another point of view of everyday life, a transformation of the daily surroundings into an uncommon world, allowing exploration beyond the conventional limits and retaining a sense of wonder.
Links:
@ingatillere
Jaime Valtierra
Cadenas y Números (Chains and Numbers)
Acrylic & Oil on Paper
2023
Description of work
Jaime Valtierra’s paintings make use of the grotesque and the body as vehicle to unearth concealed attitudes in contemporary society, creating charged images that fluctuate between the personal and the collective imaginary.
His paintings and drawings are intuitive expressions which combine mundane subject and a range of cultural influences, from ideas connected to themes within the tradition of the Carnivalesque and European painting, to his interest in children’s drawings and stories.
Jamie Dyson
Sad floater: vibrating in black glass’
Charcoal, chalk and chalkpen on paper.
2023
Price
£600.00
Description of work
The work chosen for Liminality concerns itself with the emotional weight of the neo-liberalist project and its fall-out.
Sadness and hyper ecstasy cohabit to create a prisoner of joy.
This Identity or avatar is created through the use and exploitation of the current technological moment.
Anxiety, isolationism and avarice are symptoms of the antagonistic relationship with consumer capital. This is further compounded and exacerbated by the proximity to hardware and software which renders society further into subjecthood.
The materials used are slow, and the imagery employed subtly apes the user interfaces of our disposable technologies. The works ‘subject’ is anachronistic and vibrational, caught between liberation, technology and servitude.
Jamie Dyson graduated from the MA programme at Chelsea college of art and design in 2008.
He has exhibited at Tate Britain, The Drawing room and the Bomb Factory in the UK and internationally at Supermarket Artfair at the Kulturehaus in Stockholm.
He was also a recipient of the Artists’ international development fund 2012 for the Cabin Call residency,situated in British Columbia, Canada.
Jamie currently employs Drawing, Painting, video and Motion Graphics to articulate and analyse the abovetopics and themes.
He lives and work in London.
Johny Brown
‘The Abyss gazes Also Into You’
Distressed Metal, Yacht Varnish, Spiritual Decadence
2023
Johny Brown is also performing a spoken word piece, as part of ‘Society is a Hole’ installation performance work devised by artist Kevin Quigley
@johny_brown_
Li Li Ren
‘I am becoming the memory 2023’
Memory foam, UV print on foam, hemp rope, silicone.
2023
Li Li Ren is a sculptor who uses tactile materials ranging from soft and ethereal to hard and
heavy to create intimate narratives in space. Ren is interested in the psychological effects of
human scale and bodily forms, unfolding personal narratives that evoke emotions and feelings.
Central to Ren’s ongoing body of work is a preoccupation with semiotics, and more specifically
communication beyond verbal and written language. In her submerged realm, marine lifeforms
surpass spatial disjunction through electric currents running between them, interpreted by
specialised receptors of sensation that await information.
Lisa Mckendrick
“Triptych of Enigmatic Devotion”
Mixed Media
2023
Price
£750
Description of work:
Lisa will present an artwork in the form of a devotional triptych, where playful horror intertwines with ancient rituals. The three works on paper form a seamless unity, inviting viewers to explore the blurred lines between light and darkness, superstition and reason, and the mysterious and the familiar. This fusion of religious art, horror elements, and abstract symbolism challenges conventional boundaries and urges viewers to ponder the enigmas of human experience and the mystical unknown.
Lisa is a London based artist from New Zealand with Mexican heritage. She likes to juxtapose elements of nature and industry within the same landscape thereby creating a contrast between objects, people, animals and symbols.
Currently a collection of ten of her paintings are being exhibited with Little Van Gogh as part of temporary exhibitions in corporate spaces Recently she exhibited her work at Applecart Arts, Tower Gallery, Hoxton Gallery, Surgery.Gallery, Five Years Gallery, Gallery 46, and Red Door Studios. She was awarded an artist commission in 2021 as part of Nine Elms Advent Calendar Art Trail. Additionally in 2021 she was selected for ArtHelix – Life Interrupted. In 2007 she was selected for Jerwood Contemporary Painters and Bow Arts Open, 2012. Her work has been covered in The Sunday Tribune, Trebuchet Magazine, AN Magazine and The Times. She has exhibited both in the UK and abroad. Some of her curated projects include: Obsolete Desire (2016), Hey Days (2014), Candy Mountains (2011), In an Age of Aeroplanes, You May Fly (2011). Her work has been collected as part of the James Wallace Collection (NZ).
Insta: @lisamckendrickart
Luke Jordan + Kevin Quigley
‘Alchemical Man’
Performance/Installation
Mixed Media
2023
Description of work
Looking at the transitionary processes in Alchemy from Sublimation to Nigredo – we see ‘The Friendly Abyss’ as a necessary transformational aspect of the human condition – a liminal phase of learning, change, rebirth and renewal –
Luke Jordan
I work between live art, text, sonic art, sculpture, installation and their documentation; often combining many of these elements in anomalous configurations and hybrid entanglements.
I speculate upon the ontological relationship between the human and non-human, materialist and non-materialist metaphysics and beyond, through the psycho-physical process of creation, immersion, and fatal meetings between objects / entities, approaching ontological destabilisation and disintegration.
I conduct direct experiments, merging art forms within sites of performance and installation, which are conceived as laboratories, testing grounds for:
The poetic inter-relationship of entities, and their spectres; be they, a human, dirt, words, a mattress, a sculpture, a room, a sound etc.
The development of unformed narratives; entities containing a multitude of other entities which are in the process of formation, mutation, dissolution and reformation
The creation of viscerally affective multisensory experiences, breakthroughs of the anomalous, opening labyrinthine passages of communication with the unknown.
Luke Jordan –
Spirit Trumpet Seance
Kevin Quigley
Is an Artist, Curator – whose main interest is exploring and developing esoteric culture within art making.
Focused on asking questions on archaic ‘occult’ ideas and remoulding them into new strains of thinking for the present to produce discussion in modern living and being.
@kq_quigley
Marie-Thérèse Docherty
Visions From The Depths
Acrylic and spray paint on recycled print, 60cm x 73cm
Price
£1200
Marie-Thérèse Is Scottish artist working from France.
I’m interested in psychology, spirituality, dreams and the darker side of the human experience.
Instagram
@mtdocherty
Martin Sexton
‘Plumed Serpent’ (16th c – 21st c)
Conquistador skull, painted obsidian black with Aztec battle axe and coca paint with Quetzalcoatl depicted as an ouroboros resting on raw Mexican volcanic obsidian.
2023
Price
The original work is not for sale – (the work as a photographic assemblage)
P.O.A.
Description of work
An ancient Nahuas wrote: ‘Oh my friends! I wish that we were immortal. Oh friends! Where is the land where one cannot die?’ – The Mexica (Aztecs) were of Nahua ethnicity.
Quetzalcoatl ‘feathered serpent’ an ancient Mesoamerican god – originally the bringer of enlightenment, associated with daylight, priesthood and religious ceremonies. In the Postclassic period Quetzalcoatl took on a wider symbolic role, standing opposed to the god of night and war – but Quetzalcoatl merged with other gods including the god of monsters and duality. The provenance of the original Conquistador skull is unknown – reference is made to it in the Vatican archives – but which date back no further than 1925 – though it is surmised to originally have been taken as a victory totem by an Aztec warrior in battle. It has been adorned in its present state by the artist. It is unique both in its rendering of Quetzalcoatl as an ouroboros and is the only Conquistador skull ever found with the remains of an Aztec weapon imbedded in the crown of the cranium.
The encounter between Mexico and Spain in the early 16th century was an event which ruptured world history – bringing together two sophisticated cultures that resulted in cataclysmic change.
Martin Sexton is a writer and artist whose large scale installations, immersive UFO/UAP films, macro and micro digital works, meteorite sculptures, ice works and performance merge the quantum with the secular world.
MATEKOI
Performance / Installation
Mixed Media
2023
MATEKOI are audio-visual duo Maxim Barron and Daisy Dickinson. Hypnotic. Strobe soaked. Sonically spatialised, MATEKOI inhabits the space between.
Minerva de Carvalho
‘Eterno Retornom’
Installation
Photograph on acetate, natural light, card
2023
Minerva de Carvalho is a visual and sound artist whose work explores dichotomies between conscious/subconscious and presence/absence, with a focus on ‘otherness’ and ‘liminality’.
Oliver Baggott
Esconder
Oil on Canvas
2023
Oliver Baggott is a practicing painter whose domestic phantasmagoric canvases often depict
a concern for the subjugation of non-humans, whilst adopting a Siqueiros approach that
straddles both sabotage and self-mastery.
Phill Wilson-Perkin
Nostos Vom Party, Find Your Self —->
Ink, UV [Night Glo] acrylic Ink and stickers on Paper
134x100cm
2023
Phill Wilson-Perkin uses Sculpture, sound recordings and performance. Exploring aesthetics used in bolstering cultural systems. Examining their adoption or vilification through counter cultural tropes and institutional frameworks.
PWP is also the co-curator of the Archway Sound Symposium. A series of exhibitions, events and workshops across Archway. These explored the relationship between live performance, recorded work and artists scores.
Phill Wilson-Perkin lives and works in London
Sarah Sparkes
GHost Tunnel’
Giclée print on Aluminium (edition of 12)
2023
Description of work
A black hole or worm hole. A two dimensional illusion created from a 3 dimensional illusion of a ‘GHost Tunnel’ built by the artist
Death might be another dimension that we will enter.
Sarah is a London based artist and curator. Her work is concerned with magical and mythical narratives, ghosts and Liminality through the visualisation of anomalous phenomena
Sean McLusky
Post Modern Nostalgia of Distance
MDF blocking, PVC gloss vinyl sheet
2019
Price
£900
Description of work
Maquette for giant public commission in the City of London, showing the pillars of Hercules re imagined through 1980’s architecture
Siobhan McAuley
Morning Stir
Acrylic on canvas
2023
Price
£1200
Description of work:
While touching on certain elements of personal memories in the shadows of my consciousness, these works aim to trigger a universal sense of eerie recognition and familiarity.
Siobhan McAuley comes from Ireland, a nation of storytellers; my work revolves around the retelling of memories, adventures or failed attempts at doing nonsensical things. I create narratives void of a conventional beginning, middle and end; this mapping of micro-histories is a form of resistance against homogenous mediated narratives encountered in today’s media-saturated world.
Links:
www. siobhanmcauley.com
The Hungry Ghost
Sound art performance project exploring themes of otherness, hauntology and ritual, using voice, disembodied sound, drone, improvisation…
The Hungry Ghost are performing as part of ‘Society is a Hole’ installation performance work devised by artist Kevin Quigley
WuzzaCG
WuzzaCG is performing as part of ‘Society is a Hole’ installation performance work devised by artist Kevin Quigley
Yev Kazannik
Untitled, from Bardo series
Digital Photographic print on transparent film mounted in light box
2015 (ongoing)
Price: £2500
Yev’s work engages with themes of time, light, the human mind and its constructions. His work has been exhibited internationally and so as a part of private and museum collections.
In the dimly lit corridors of artistic exploration, my ongoing photographic series takes form—a convergence of ethereal concepts. Bathed in warm light within display cabinets, a radiant white glow traverses the somber tapestry woven from expired insects casting an illuminating aura upon the observer. This dance between light and dark, life and demise, finds visual expression in this assemblage.
Guided by Tibetan wisdom and European mysticism, this project echoes the Bardo concept—an intermediary realm between transitions. At the juncture of birth and death, vitality and decay, its essence materializes through traditional and contemporary photographic forms.
These captured instants encapsulate fleeting liminal spaces—where brilliance and shadow, existence and expiration harmonize. Balanced on the precipice, my art mirrors the profound mysteries of life and death, inviting contemplation of emotions and reflections within these intermediary intervals. From elation to melancholy, the spectrum of sentiment finds sanctuary within these hallowed betwixt and between.
Evgeniy Kazannik is a visual artist working predominately with analogue printing techniques. He studied photography at the London College of Communication (University of the Arts London) and worked as a commercial photographer for over 15 years, with work published in the Guardian, FT, Wire, Wax Poetics, NME, XLR8R and others. He moved away from working with traditional camera techniques in 2019 and started developing a new analogue process instrumenting Lumen Printing and Photogram among others.
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