Rachel Monosov
LIMINAL, 2021

Liminal is a performance-based video work which translates the diverse states of our psychic and physical being during the Covid-19 pandemic into a digital exhibition. Conceived in early 2021 as a website to allow the public to virtually enter the three rooms of Villa Massimo in Rome without restrictions, in October 2021, at Casa Artelor in Timisoara, the work was presented for the first time as a 3-screen installation available for in-person public viewing.

The boundaries between us have dissolved. The lens replaces your eye, initiating and sustaining contact.

Inside this Liminal phase, we can change our identities and our governments. We exist in between the life we lived before and the life we will live after… whenever after comes. Still, the lasting effects on our psyche and social behaviors are still unknown. The only thing we know is that we miss touching another body, we miss our own bodies which could rebel! We are looking for the place of healing through movement together.

LIMINAL was originally commissioned by Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo.

Concept and Choreography: Rachel Monosov
Co-Choreography and performers: Rachell Bo Clark, Stephanie Amurao Music: Philipp Rhensius

Composer: Santa Bušs
Singer: Julia Shelkovskaia

Camera: Andrea Arnone
Video Editor: Vera Rosa Maria Herr

Rachel Monosov
LIMINAL, 2021
Room 1. Performance at Villa Massimo. 30mins

Rachel Monosov
LIMINAL, 2021

Rachel Monosov
LIMINAL, 2021

Rachel Monosov
LIMINAL, 2021

Rachel Monosov
LIMINAL, 2021

Rachel Monosov
LIMINAL, 2021

Rachel Monosov
LIMINAL, 2020
Installation view at VIDEO+RADIO+LIVE 2021.

Rachel Monosov
LIMINAL, 2020
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