Rationale

Liminal spaces are thresholds, or a spaces in-between other spaces, and are often in flux. They are spaces of uncertainty and change: potentially rich with meaning for both artist and viewer. By using subject matter that is largely incidental, often featuring banal activities that are not contrived or choreographed, attempts are made to bring to the fore the peripheries of the everyday. This can reveal the quieter moments that may be lost in faster, louder, activities.

Myriam Raymond engages with sensorial liminal space, primarily explored through the moving image format: filmic video works, object-based works, sound and installation.

In time-based works, simple editing processes are used to create subtle tensions and contradictions within the architecture of images on a screen, the aim being to highlight the specific areas of liminal space that occur within and between these images. It is hoped that formal contradictions in architectural liminal space may generate states of indeterminacy in the work, which may then manifest as the anxiety, or tension, of psychological liminal space. A viewer may then gain a heightened level of experience upon accepting that psychological liminal space on phenomenological grounds.