Limbo Collective Manifest

Limbo is an abstract space, seemingly difficult to define. It is a transition: an alternative space-time situated between two events. It is a threshold between what is no longer and what is yet to be, a parenthesis between two temporalities marked by detachment and potentiality.

Within this space, one form ceases to be sufficient while another has yet to fully appear. The previous direction no longer serves us, but a new one is on the verge of emerging.

What remains undefined can be unsettling in a world filled with categories. We enter a liminal space when a question or concern causes the previous order to lose its meaning. Once inside, a certain fluid discomfort arises: what we once knew has been left behind, but what will take its place has yet to be discovered.

Within this indeterminacy, we can create the conditions for something new to appear. Working from this position requires us to suspend some of our expectations and partially relinquish control.

In this sense, process can at times be understood as play. It is an original movement whose outcome is unknown in advance. It temporarily suspends established rules and, from there, can produce systems that challenge earlier values without denying them altogether. The playful thus becomes a mode of enquiry and a possibility for transformation.

Limbo Collective emerges from this space. Liminality is a position from which to make, look and establish relationships.

Limbo Collective is a contemporary art gallery interested in practices that inhabit boundaries: between art and design, object and sculpture, matter and image, body and territory, permanence and transformation. We are drawn to work that remains open to multiple readings and finds a form of freedom within that indeterminacy.

The boundaries between these practices constitute the terrain in which Limbo Collective works. Their coexistence allows new forms, readings and relationships to emerge.

Ceramics is one of our points of origin, and from this foundation we open the gallery to other disciplines. Its presence has taught us to understand matter not as a passive support, but as a force capable of intervening in the work. Each material imposes a time, a resistance and a possibility.

For Limbo Collective, materiality is a way of approaching art that crosses disciplines. It means paying attention to how things come into being, to the forces that pass through them and to the traces left by their transformation.

We are interested in work in which process actively participates in the construction of meaning. Works that retain a trace of their journey and in which the initial intention can be altered by what it encounters.

Accident is not, in itself, an aesthetic formula. It interests us when it reveals the tension between an intention and the forces acting upon it. We recognise that a work is not merely a finished image, but the result of a relationship —at times symbiotic— between matter, thought, body and time.

Before entering the white cube, a work has already had a life inside a studio or workshop. It has lived alongside tools, tests, errors and repetitions. It has passed through decisions that remain and others that disappear from its final form.

This essential history keeps Limbo Collective close to places of production and to the people who inhabit them. We seek to accompany works from their place of production to their encounter with the public, keeping visible their relationship with the processes and contexts that made them possible.

Limbo Collective emerged in Barcelona from the experience of Limbo Project, a workshop and creative community where production, research, learning and encounter coexist. This origin shapes the way we look. It reminds us that works do not appear in isolation: they emerge from networks of work, conversation and care.

We understand the collective through this relational dimension. Limbo Collective is an open structure in which different practices can affect one another.

We bring together different practices and trajectories to build dialogues that allow each work to be contemplated from new positions. The collective preserves differences and creates a space in which they can enter into relation.

The gallery operates through a permanent online catalogue, as well as periodic exhibitions and physical encounters.

The digital space allows works to circulate beyond a particular place and moment. Exhibitions return the body and shared experience to that circulation. The two spaces complement one another: one keeps access open; the other makes encounter possible.