The Eerie Art of Liminal Spaces

#liminalspace #art #videoessay
Follow me as we take a look into the world of liminal spaces and their depiction within art. This is my first Halloween special and it was a lot of fun putting everything together, I hope you enjoy! 👻
My socials 📧:
IG: / danielangart
ArtStation: www.artstation.com/danielangart
InPrnt: www.inprnt.com/gallery/daniel...
Artists mentioned in the video:
Edward Hopper - www.edwardhopper.net/
Hiroshi Nagai - / hiroshipenguinjoe
Simon Stålenhag - www.simonstalenhag.se/
P. Carredo - www.artstation.com/u12bd51fb
Jamie Williams - www.artstation.com/jamiewilliams
Music 🎼:
E J R M - Accretion
Oakfield - Last Dive
Palm Blue - Gazing Wide
Palm Blue - Ripples
Yotam Agam - Venus
We Dream of Eden - Distant Horizon
Intro Music by RavenRapid:
/ ravenrapid
Articles:
jpf.org.au/events/hiroshi-nag...
www.vintag.es/2019/06/hiroshi...
www.tokyocowboy.co/articles/u...
Game Footage:
The Complex - Found Footage
Japanese Stock Footage:
PexBell - Free Stock Video Footage
• Japan Stock Footages -...
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:09 Liminal Spaces
4:49 Edward Hopper
7:07 Hiroshi Nagai
9:50 Simon Stålenhag
11:44 P. Carredo & Jamie Williams
14:50 Outro

[@DanielAngArt]

*Happy Halloween!* In case you're curious, the game I was playing during the video is called 'The Complex: Found Footage'. Hope you enjoy the vid!

[@flawed1]

It’s so cool to see this presented as a legitimate art style rather than a passing fad. From the moment I first saw art like this, I was fascinated. I think it will always be one of my favorite art styles, even with the correct fad passes

[@DanielAngArt]

I definitely agree. This kind of art always spark questions of what it means to be alive and the nature of places around us we don't notice. I think this subject matter will continue being around for decades to come.

[@jamiewilliams9560]

Wonderful video! Carredo's work has such a cool vibe. Thanks for having me as part of it!

[@DanielAngArt]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks again for the insight and amazing artwork 😄

[@alicec.6195]

I wish I could live inside a Hiroshi Nagai painting.

[@shadedblurry]

This video was really well narrated , and informative. You did a great job man

[@denvervlogs1236]

I can feel the presence of a liminal space by visiting a place I used to go a lot in my childhood and seeing everything but devoid of the people I once remembered in it

[@DanielAngArt]

That is a strange feeling. The same area that becomes unrecognisable due to time simply passing - makes you wonder about ancient civilisations too.

[@tatija100]

I absolutely love Edward Hopper's paintings. They always are filled with isolation and peace at the same time.

[@eadamic17]

City 17 in Half-Life 2 conveyed this feeling in an unbelievable way.

[@nguyenhoang6702]

I was only 32 seconds into the video and I must ask this question. Why. Are. You. So. UNDERRATED. You deserve so much more!!!

[@pcarredo]

love it! thanks for having me in the video...

[@DanielAngArt]

Thanks for sharing your experiences with me!

[@BD638]

loved this video! you have the speaking and video essay talent of channels with millions of followers, keep it up and you'll be there :)

[@levelsdown]

This was really fascinating, I hadn't heard of Hiroshi Nagai before watching this, but I love those artworks. Great vid!

[@sarahfernandes5789]

Awesome video!! Really nice to see someone talking about Hiroshi Nagai, one of my favorite artists ♥ thaks for the amazing content!!

[@BlueClown2023]

This video is so interesting and WELL MADE. Im currently doing a reserch for a school presentation (on italian metaphysical painting) and I wanted to add something more contemporary. I finally found someone who explains this "aesthetic" as an art movement. Thank you very much!

[@DanielAngArt]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! That sounds like an interesting presentation - all the best!

[@StyleshStorm]

Underrated. I've seen case analysis on the topic of Liminal Space theory and one KZbinr in particular made a home run I just watched a day or two ago but this one's really good too.

[@fridaaa0]

Great video! I'm finding so many great artists thanks to you. And I briefly panicked at 11:29, I thought reality was breaking down for a sec

[@DanielAngArt]

You're welcome Mousie! Haha I took Nexpo as inspiration for that one 😉

[@cirrusB612]

11:30 Ohhhhhh dude. I was listening to this in the background and you properly gave me a scare.

[@DanielAngArt]

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[@i_e_she]

This was a brilliant video.. bingewatching your content and subscribed too. Love the soul you're putting into your content.

[@DanielAngArt]

Thank you so much for your kind words! Glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@connie1wilson]

11:30 - Owww, you sod! Thought my TV had died!

[@izzydarkhart4144]

I am not sure if I am the only one who feels this, but I deal with a lot of social anxiety, and I am constantly bombarded with people who need my help. I find liminal spaces so comforting. That level of unreal isolation seems like heaven.

[@Kamkashi]

Amazing video! I especially like how you deviate from the creepy aspect of liminal spaces and treat the beautiful and recomforting side of them❤

[@fitbither68]

Thank you so much for introducing so many inspiring artists!

[@user-no1ut6dz8y]

I am watching it in late night, my dark room, and I'm frightened when 11:35 lol

[@sarahross6743]

Great video!! Once again the content, visuals and narrative is very informative and entertaining. Thank you for also exposing me to so many other different artists. 👏👏👏👌👌

[@elisepearce1008]

so glad you made this video! loved it 🙂

[@phoenixxking4156]

This was really good!

[@oreo903the2one]

Omg i remember i had to write a story for one of those images onthe thumbnail for english

[@DragonfoxgirlThals]

Loved the video!

[@milo-ck1df]

Such a beautiful and underrated video! I am fascinated by this topic so much that I chose to look at liminal spaces for my personal investigation at art college, and studied the artists Ben Mclaughlin and Henri Prestes, as well as Hopper and Vilhelm Hammershoi. I like that a lot of liminal space art doesn't really seem to have a subject at all, and also the uncanny feeling of something being off but not being able to tell what it is.

[@DanielAngArt]

Thank you for watching! That's fantastic that you chose to analyse it for college - it's so rich with detail and exploration as a concept. And you're definitely right with it not having a subject matter, almost as if the absence of one is the very point.

[@MiddleEasternCafe]

Jfc LOVE this kind of video! Very Solar Sands-esque!

[@MrTrimbos]

Also look at the paintings of Cristof Yovre

[@maxgwyer5707]

Love the video!

[@SpicyCook]

Nice video, love to see more Liminal art and some nice analysis of them

[@matthewfarrell6822]

this video as well as your channel is depressingly underrated

[@jfd9616]

I guess im a bit new to the genre of liminal spaces. I found out about the backrooms during COVID, thought it was just a cool idea someone came up, before the end of 2023, is when I found out about the true meaning of Liminal spaces; Personally, when looking at liminal spaces or other stuff alike, I view it as, probably in a pass life, you were probably in a specific area or you view a specific image you think you were in, or in a scenario, you know you were in but it's changed a little, memories just lifting into the heavens or depths of hell.

[@jessicataylor13]

Fantastic video on one of my favorite subjects.

[@borntoclimb7116]

I like the liminal spaces artworks

[@koyuki6113]

bro, me everynight

[@snowforest1998]

Is it me or is roundhouse glazing Ksi more and more maybe that's why Wade doesn't care about misfits. 2:1?? Based on what? 6:1 is a far better outlook based on everything they've done

[@DallasCrane]

Stålenhag’s work isn’t liminal. The post-apocalyptic element means that we KNOW the purpose of the space is lost. Liminal spaces do not give us any such closure. We’re left wondering why the space is there, what it’s for, and IF it’s still being used. That’s the terror, the ambiguity of functionality in spaces that feel like alien-made architectural mimicry. Are we the flies in the poison flower, or fish chasing the worm on a hook? While I do like the common interpretation of liminal as being a transitional space, the true meaning of liminal in this context refers to the liminal space between dreaming and being awake. We’re aware of what we are seeing but not why we are seeing it.

[@DanielAngArt]

That's definitely an interesting point - and I agree. The most memorable liminal spaces are the ones you can't quite place on any measurable context. It's just sort of an amalgamation of familiar things, but lacking any kind of purpose.

[@Quorix996]

I played that game! 0:51