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limagerie

Limagerie is an emerging interdisciplinary field that studies imagery tied to thresholds, borders, and transitional states. It spans visual arts, film, photography, digital media, and design, focusing on how images mediate between presence and absence, reality and fabrication, or clarity and ambiguity, and how such imagery shapes perception and interpretation.

The term limagerie is a neologism combining limen, the Latin for threshold, with a gallery-like suffix to

Practices include curatorial and creative strategies that foreground edges and transitions, as well as artworks and

Status: Limagerie is not yet a formal discipline; it overlaps with visual studies, media archaeology, and theories

See also: liminality, image theory, visual culture, media archaeology, glitch art.

signal
a
systematic
approach
to
border
imagery.
It
situates
analysis
within
semiotics,
phenomenology,
cognitive
science,
and
media
archaeology.
media
that
exploit
border
effects,
edge
rendering,
glitch,
translucency,
and
silences.
Researchers
use
perceptual
studies,
discourse
analysis,
and
historical
comparison
to
map
these
practices
across
cultures
and
platforms.
of
liminality.
It
appears
in
contemporary
art
discourse
and
critical
writing
as
a
framework
for
examining
and
producing
threshold
imagery.