Marcus Reistad

In anthropology the concept of liminality is used to describe the ambiguous space that occurs in the middle of a rite of passage: The disorientation of transitioning. This can be described as both a metaphysical and bodily experience. Transitioning from youth to adulthood or from life to death. Thus, liminality can be the space where the annihilation of space and time occurs. Where a psychological landscape of in-betweenness transpires. Of shapes changing form, like snakes shedding their skin, of skin growing cold, of metal becoming soft, a horizon foreboding what’s to come. 

The series includes images made with a xerox transfer, done in lockdown during the pandemic, without access to labs. By printing photocopies and then making high-resolution scans, the grainy analog images are rendered with a digital noise layer, resembling an early digital video camera. Working with this layered tactility became a way to re-contextualize the archives, making old photographs scintillate with new possibilities.

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