FAITH XLVII is an internationally acclaimed South African street and studio-based artist who participated in Season 2’s Invisible Exhibition at The Centre for the Less Good Idea.

Faith describes making this work through “vast emotions of pendulum sway’ during this period of global crisis. The video is a stop frame documentation of two drawings, ‘The Creative’, and ‘The Receptive’ which then led to a third work, ‘ A Study of Liminality’”

In Faith’s words: “Liminality from the Latin word līmen, meaning ‘a threshold’ denotes a space/time between one's previous way of structuring one's identity, time, or community, and a new way.

In anthropology, it is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete.

During liminal periods of all kinds, social hierarchies may be reversed or temporarily dissolved, continuity of tradition may become uncertain, and future outcomes once taken for granted may be thrown into doubt. The dissolution of order during liminality creates a fluid, malleable situation that enables new institutions and customs to become established.”

Concept & Creation | FAITH XLVII
Curator of The Long Minute | Bronwyn Lace