Maria Grazia Carriero's 'Versus Limen' at Galleria 32 in Carovigno

Maria Grazia Carriero (born 1980 in Gioia del Colle) presents 'Versus Limen' at Galleria 32 in Carovigno (Brindisi), curated by Giuliana Schiavone, running until August 29, 2025. The exhibition explores the concept of 'limen'—threshold, wound, the ambiguous zone between human and numinous, daily life and ritual time—drawing on Arnold van Gennep's liminal phase and Ernesto De Martino's studies. Carriero uses video, photography, installations, and paintings on paper to unearth and stitch together forgotten symbols, popular superstition icons, and residual fragments of archaic cosmology: masks, amulets, votive anatomies. Her works interrogate the socio-anthropological tension between rite and rupture, staging interrupted, aborted, or frozen liminal phases. The artist treats the sacred not as a community operating system but as an emotional memory lodged in bodies, dreams, and automatic gestures. The exhibition is described as a threshold that demands the viewer undergo a rite—mutilated, emptied, yet still alive. Fabio Petrelli is the author of the article.