Liminal (2007)

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A  coffin, wooden bridge, hidden camera, screen, computer.

Dimensions:  6’ 1/2” X 7’ 1/2” X 3’   (201 cm X 231 cm X 90 cm)

A narrow, rickety, wooden bridge leads to a coffin.  Viewers walk up the plank of wood to the
casket’s door. Once enclosed inside the coffin, s/he comes face to face with her/his own path.
A hidden camera captures any individual traveling up the bridge and ultimately disappearing inside
the coffin. The footage is played live, with a 15 second delay, inside the coffin’s shut door. The
viewer finds her/himself watching their own symbolic death in a claustrophobic setting where
they cannot turn their head to look away.

This piece is dedicated to my stepmother, Josiane Leila Peret, who died from throat cancer in
Geneva, 2006.

Photographs taken by Alp Esin.

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