Tamara Mikler’s paintings are not merely visual experiences. Together, her works create a liminal space. Originally a term used in ethnography and anthropology, it now holds central significance in psychology, architecture, aesthetics, and art theory as well. It denotes a transitional state, a threshold existence, or an in-between space, phase, or place that is no longer what it used to be, but not yet what it might become.
The visual structure of Mikler’s works—not rigid, but rather intuitively constructed and dynamic—still allows room for rearrangement, through which the artist raises fundamental questions. How do we see the world? To what extent are we still receptive to the forgotten, yet deeply longed-for, simpler and more natural forms of our former existence? Can we reconnect with our primal instincts despite the modern, organized, and rational surface? To what degree are we able to reconcile modern technology with the power of ancient, forgotten symbols and myths, or do we conceal it behind the false illusions of technology?
The title Guardians is both a call and a warning. Mikler’s Guardians stand firmly in the borderland, asking us through their silent presence: will we allow our exciting and alluring, yet lifelessly doomed realm to absorb them forever, or will we set them free to live alongside us? (Brigitta Muladi)
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