Lar liminar

Lar liminar unfolds as a field of thought structured around the tension between the desire for rootedness and the experience of transition. The notion of lar—which refers both to the home and to the lares, tutelary deities in Roman tradition associated with the protection of the domestic sphere—evokes ideas of shelter, continuity, and belonging. Yet, when traversed by the liminal, the home ceases to appear as stable ground and instead becomes a threshold: a space of passage where modes of inhabiting are subject to constant reformulation.

The works brought together in Lar liminar—by the eleven emerging artists selected for this edition of TÀNDEM—participate in this same condition of transition. Within them, the yearning for rootedness—whether in relation to territory, memory, or materiality—coexists with an awareness of its instability.

Within the context of Casa R.A.R.O., Lar liminar acquires a particularly tangible dimension. The space hosting the TÀNDEM residencies operates as a transitional home for emerging artists: a place that sustains without fixing, that welcomes without closure.

Ultimately, Lar liminar does not propose a reconciled image of home, but rather a poetics of the threshold… an invitation to inhabit instability as a condition, and to recognize within it not a lack, but a form of potential.