“The Bare Edge” comprises four textile panels. The works emerge from liminality not merely as a theoretical idea, but as a lived and continuous experience. Throughout the project, liminality was manifested as a lasting condition: a life defined by transition, shifting places and the perpetual quest for belonging.
The four panels represent various stages of life, each located in unstable, porous and increasingly dissolving liminal spaces. Instead of depicting fixed locations, the artworks suggest thresholds: instances of transition where identity, memory and direction are left in a state of suspension and ambiguity.
The collection consists of silk, Cantù lace and embroidery. These materials were selected for their delicacy and durability, as well as for their capacity to preserve remnants of the creative process. Cantù lace holds a pivotal position: its erratic characteristics render complete control unattainable, necessitating an instinctive and responsive methodology. Consequently, the artistic journey transforms into an ongoing dialogue with the material itself, mirroring the inherent unpredictability of transitional phases.
The silk was dyed through immersion techniques, enabling the color to develop through chance, saturation and fading. The resulting surfaces evoke emotional landscapes rather than literal images, recalling memories that transform over time and elude clarity. Swallows are depicted on the panels as symbols of migration and return. Traditionally linked with movement and orientation, swallows represent the paradox of uprootedness: the perpetual journey combined with an innate sense of home.
The silk thread embroidery creates linear, subtle marks on the fabric. These lines serve as paths, routes and remnants of memory. They do not establish boundaries but imply continuity, linking what has been left behind with what is still in the process of formation.
The intentionally revealed and incomplete edges of the artworks, provide the series with its name. These “bare edges” symbolize vulnerability, transition and the journey through unresolved liminal spaces that gradually fade away. They resist closure, favoring the process of becoming over the notion of arrival.
“The Bare Edge” contemplates migration, identity and memory as continuous processes. The series portrays liminality not merely as a fleeting threshold, but as a space of permanence, where individual and collective histories are perpetually open, layered and evolving.
