This is the second interview taht I have conducted with Riar. The first one, just weeks before, somehow failed to record sound. Although the conversation now exists only in our memory, its affect radiated onto the conversation published below. As we spoke for the second time it was as if we were tracing a memory, or a dream. 

Like in a realm of quantum physics, Riar works with frequently,  the initial conversation seems to move between different states deepening on where we look from, its potentiality radiating onto our subsequent encounter and readings.

Limbu’s work is about strange visitations and orders of strangers, of cubes and alien landings, of forgotten or lost cultures and civilisations altered forever. It is about orders, systems and ruins; about power, domination and collapse.
It is the work of someone in liminal position between the worlds, fragmented from their homeland and not exactly merged with the new habitat. Forever in-between.

Infrathin lies in the Monolith. Practice, positioned on undefiable separation of colonised and colonising, cultures and stories interwoven and over-imposed, tells of not exactly successful rewriting. It deals with the impossible to define and difficult to describe, entangled intricacies of internal dependencies, like scarring of ‘old’ and ‘new’ narratives, of self or familiar and the other estranged. It is a story of cultural perils of old and new colonialisms and the tricky road of having more than one belonging and being subjected to more than one order of dominance.

The cosmos is essentially elusive. It is regulated by both order and chaos and simultaneously by the absence of the two. It is not a monolithic presence thriving on stasis but rather an energy in perpetual becoming. How do you tune in to the undetectable, then? This impossibility is most seductive.