Limen [2025]
Performance
Concept and performance: Federica Dauri
Sculpture and technical support: Hanna Schaich
LIMEN is conceived as a performance that can take two different forms: A long-durational performance or a 30-minute staged version.This flexibility allows the work to adapt to different contexts and spatial configurations, from galleries and museums to theatrical or site-specific environments.
Dauri's naked body moves within a sculptural environment made of barbed wire, with extreme slowness, precision, and awareness. Each gesture becomes an act of negotiation with the sharp boundaries, sliding above and beneath them, in search of passages where risk and possibility meet.
The barbed wire is not merely a physical obstacle: it becomes a metaphor for control over bodies, for censorship, repression, and the structures that regulate mobility, contact, and access to resources.
LIMEN stages the precariousness of every act of crossing, generating a suspended and porous space where vulnerability and courage, exposure and care intertwine in a living and continuous tension.
Every movement takes shape as a constant negotiation between what confines and what aspires to transcend it, transforming the scene into a liminal place where fragility becomes the living matter of the gesture.
The steel sculpture consists of four modular metal structures, onto which barbed wires are fixed. Once assembled, the modules define a spatial structure that establishes the perimeter of the performative action.