LIMINAL ZONE | BETWEEN WORLDS : Jorge Queiroz, Andreas Eriksson, Aelita le Quément

In an exhibition trialogue, the museum Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren is showing works by the Portuguese artist Jorge Queiroz, the Swede Andreas Eriksson and the young French painter Aelita le Quément. For the first time in southern Germany, the work of the three artists will be presented institutionally and thus to a broad public. Some of the works were created specifically for the exhibition in Kaufbeuren.

 

A key connection between all three artists can be found in their handling of "liminality" as a central aspect within their respective works. Since the term liminality was coined in the early 1960s, it has been discussed again and again in various research fields. In general, it serves to describe a transition, an ambiguous or even a threshold state and refers to different areas, such as sociology and especially ritual research. In the visual arts, the principle of a liminal transformation space represents one of the most interesting and versatile approaches to conveying a specific type of abstraction of a state and its pictorial representation.