„I want to breathe for aesthetical pleasure, not to keep myself alive. I want to look at the darkness with my eyes wide open, caring not for what is hidden within. I want to feel the pain of resting on a sharp surface for its own sake. This, to me, is freedom.“
Thomas Sing – LIMINAL
a photo-book starring Teresa Del Sole
with texts by Teresa Del Sole and Thomas Sing
edited by Chiara Padovan
limited edition book of 300 copies, signed, numbered & sealed
144 pages of previously unreleased images and texts
velvet hard-cover with black embossing, shiny black edged
measurements: 33.3×24.7×2.2 cm / wrapped in paper approx. 35.5×27.0x3.0 cm, ca. 1300 gr.
Design: Christine Maier @ WunderUndTaten
ISBN: 978-3-00-076872-9
Price for #11-299: 149 EUR
or find the book in these bookstores:
Paris, Le Plac’Art Photo
Köln, Café Lehmitz Photobooks
Valencia, Sebastian Melmoth
Augsburg, Laufsteg
AWARDS:
2024 International Creative Media Award (gold in the category: artists book)
2024 Prix de la Photographie Paris (silver in the Monograph Book category)
FESTIVALS:
2024 Offprint London
2024 Leipzig Photobook Festival @ GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst, March 9-10
2023 Offprint Paris
Nomadic at heart and built on association, liminal is an outstretched hand into a delicate realm of chaos and beauty. It calls for us to open up to the poetry of immanence, to stop and experience: the flight of birds, the flow of water, the vastness of the horizon. The world pouring itself into the body, the body mouthing into the world. The city as organism, the body as place. The multitude of being.
Liminal has been awarded GOLD
at the International Creative Media Awards 2024
in the „Artist Book“ category!
„Who knows if the void will ever gift me a new heart, a new spirit and a harder body or a softer one…“
Liminal has been awarded SILVER
at the Prix de la Photographie Paris 2024
in the „Monograph Book“ category!
Photographed over two years in three countries, liminal blurs all boundaries – including those of genre. Architecture meets classic nude, conceptual photography meets experimental techniques, analogue meets digital, image meets text in a unique work that owes much of its magic to Chiara Padovan’s editorial composition and Christine Maier’s eye for design.
Muse Teresa Del Sole takes the viewer on a journey of self-exploration, Charon and siren at the same time. She is the face of the book, and the author of four of its texts.
Liminal is the dream continuation of Thomas Sing’s first monograph Until I Break
The project was supported by the Arno Buchegger Foundation, the artists‘ association ‚Die Ecke“ and many pre-orders. Published in October 2023, one third of the edition is already gone. Thank you!
EXCLUSIVE PRINT EDITIONS:
Liminal #1/300 comes with a large fine-art print (max. 140×100 cm, on Hahnemühle Photorag 308g.) in finest gallery frame: PRICE ON REQUEST
Liminal #6, 8, 9, 10/300 come each with a fine-art print (ca. 50×70 cm on a 60×80 cm sheet, Hahnemühle Photorag 308g., rolled): 950 EUR / each
To secure your copy with print, please contact us via mail or phone.
All available prints can be viewed true to scale via my free augmented reality App:
Thomas Sing Art AR App (iOS)
Thomas Sing Art AR App (Android)
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Rainer Maria Rilke