At the March meeting, Sara Faridamin, a visual artist working primarily with photography, was invited to present a new series of photos, that had been created during an artist residency at ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics, in Berlin, in 2024.
Titled Liminal Strides, the project explores the interstitial spaces of the city, those overlooked thresholds between built and natural environments where asphalt, concrete, grass, and gravel meet. Through walking, the series examines how these varied surfaces shape bodily movement and sensory experience, transforming pathways into sites of reflection, orientation, and encounter. It investigates the poetics of liminality, how the urban landscape carries traces of movement, memory, and temporality, and considers walking as a spatial and emotional practice that informs how we perceive, navigate, and remember places. In dialogue with the layering of natural and man-made textures, Liminal Strides reveals how the terrain beneath our feet, subtly influences our emotional and spatial awareness.
After the presentation, discussion turned to the meaning of psycho-geography and the different ways that photographers apply ideas of psycho-geography to their practice. From the writings of Iain Sinclair to the flaneurs of a bygone age, it was a wide-ranging discussion and many thanks to Sara Faridamin for showing and introducing us to this excellent project.