BETWIXT & BETWEEN: Diasporic Visions of Liminal Spaces Unveiled in Berlin
Between Curatorial Projects, a collaboration of students from our MBA Contemporary Art: Sales, Display and Collecting presented its first exhibition, Betwixt & Between: Diasporic Visions of Liminal Spaces, showing the work of Ana Hupe, Miji Ih, Daniela Medina Poch and Gonzalo Reyes Araos.
The exhibition took place at LAGE EGAL [SPL 19], an independent space for curatorial projects in Berlin, Germany.
The exhibition opened on Wednesday, June 26, and featured a lecture-performance by Daniela Medina Poch. Visitors gathered at LAGE EGAL [SPL 19] and took a short walk to the Grünanlage mit Brunnen, a small park near the fountain on Platz der Vereinten Nationen, to attend the performance. After the performance, exhibition tours continued with Miji Ih, Daniela Medina Poch and Gonzalo Reyes Araos back at LAGE EGAL [SPL 19].
The next event, on Saturday, June 29, was the artist talk at LAGE EGAL [SPL 19] with Ana Hupe and Daniela Medina Poch, hosted by the two curators.
The participating artists come from different cultural backgrounds and live and work in Berlin’s multicultural landscape. The passage from their country of origin to this history-laden city is reflected in the themes of the works presented in this exhibition.
Composed of installations, collages, photographs, photograms and performances, the exhibition guides visitors through the liminal spaces in which diasporic artists exist and move. The past is a link to their cultural home, the future a path toward foreign experiences, and liminality is the present. “BETWIXT & BETWEEN” is an expression used to describe this liminality: the feeling of standing at the threshold between two places or even two identities. Just as the diasporic experience varies, so does the materialization of the artists' works, presented through written words or typed codes, through light or water. Diverse in both concept and form, the artists' interpretations of the liminal read like a memory or a fantasy, like a desert or a flourishing.
Liminality seeps into the fabric of diasporic existence. Betwixt & Between captured the footprints left on the ephemeral yet solid ground on which diasporic artists live.