In limbo - On the state of the (im)possible
Our portrait project is entitled 'In limbo' and deals with the feelings and individual states that arise from being in limbo. Everyone is floating somewhere, is or has been in a transformative phase or in a general limbo between being and not being.
Change is omnipresent, whether in our private or professional lives. It accompanies us and ensures that we constantly have to face new challenges as human beings. This scares many people, brings with it uncertainty and even causes panic in some. But change can also mean hope for improvement and creates space for new possibilities, ideas and solutions. With our project, we are making these phases of ambiguity in society visible, documenting the fears and hopes of different people and can thus establish connections that ultimately affect us all. We should therefore learn to deal with a certain amount of ambiguity in life.
Of course, this affects all people to a greater or lesser extent, but as creatives, we feel particularly affected by the feeling of floating. Therefore, if you want to pursue artistic creation for a long time and with a certain sustainability, it is probably not a bad thing to acquire a particularly high tolerance for ambiguity. For your own protection. Who hasn't experienced the feeling of suddenly being overwhelmed with self-doubt and questioning they’re entire work, sometimes they’re entire existence? Where do I go from here? Am I good enough? What if I fail? Am I on the right path? These are all questions that many of us face every day. Through the interviews with the people portrayed, we were able to learn a lot about the individual feeling of floating and how different people deal with it.
On the one hand, there were many differences, but on the other, we also heard a lot of similarities. Regardless of whether you look to the future with fear or hope, whether you start a new phase of life full of euphoria when you move or change jobs, or whether you look at the coming changes with concern, one thing is certain: when you are in limbo, anything is possible. Even what we think is absolutely impossible could soon become our everyday life, in both a positive and negative sense. Being able to live with this uncertainty and even look forward to it when the outcome of a situation or change seems completely open, determines to a large extent how we feel. If we don't rack our brains over all the possible and impossible ways of what might or might not happen, we will probably find greater happiness at the end of the road. No matter how it turned out. Because what happens in between, 'in limbo', is often just as important as the actual landing. The question now is, where is your limbo?
Created in collaboration with Luca Daumüller
