The new Frontier of Art

Editorial Thresholds for Contemporary Thought

There was no precise moment, nor a formal encounter.
Liminal emerged instead from an intuition, subtle yet insistent, growing quietly beneath the surface. A necessity that could no longer be postponed: the need to create an editorial platform that does not respond to market demands, but to a vision. A threshold, in the most radical sense of the term. A liminal space.

Born within a historical moment saturated by images, narratives, and continuous urgency, Liminal does not aim to report on the art world. It aspires to offer a space of passage—where one might pause, reflect, and perhaps transform. A space where thought is given the time to sediment, and artistic work can reclaim its enigmatic density, its unrevealed truths.

The name Liminal was chosen with great care and awareness of its significance.
To be liminal is not merely to be “in transition.” It is to inhabit the living threshold between what has been and what is coming into being. It is the moment when boundaries dissolve and new forms become possible. It is a space of disorientation, of reconfiguration—where identity is not fixed, but in motion. Neither inside nor outside, but in between.

It is precisely in this in-between that we locate the most fertile ground for contemporary creation.

Liminal is both a poetic manifesto and a curatorial methodology. Conceived during our work at Future Maastricht Museum, it responds to the need for a parallel space—tactile, visual, and conceptual—that could extend our research beyond the walls of the institution. Long conversations, shared readings, and sleepless nights among layers of concrete and pulses of digital light eventually demanded another form.

Thus, this editorial project came into being: as a field notebook for those who do not seek predefined paths, but instead draw maps while walking. We are not concerned with documenting what has already been said, nor with aesthetics aimed at consensus. Our attention is drawn to tensions, fractures, and speculative possibilities.

Riccardo and me seek to explore what remains unnamed, to give space to radical thinkers, to artists who wield imagination as a political force, to designers who embrace the productive collision between memory and futurity: Liminal is not an art magazine. It is a shapeshifting organism, responsive to the transformations of time, perception, and territory. It is a compass for those navigating uncharted crossings. A space for those who long for the “elsewhere,” yet remain rooted in the complexity of the present.

A living threshold. Open. Traversable. Necessary.

Ultimately, we are nothing more than cartographers of the impossible—gazing toward what does not yet exist, with our feet grounded in the strata of past and present.

This is our offering.
This is our first threshold.

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