Threshold
Lujayn Schroeder
Michaelis School of Fine Art
Threshold (2025) explores identity, displacement, and belonging through photography and objects. My work emerges from living between identities and geographies, shaped by Saudi Arabia, the country of my birth, where I am denied citizenship, and South Africa, the country of my nationality and heritage. I exist in a space where belonging is provisional and home is never fixed. Doors, Roshan lattice, family archives, architectural remnants, inherited objects, and portraits become fragments of this suspended state. They explore boundaries between inclusion and exclusion and memory and loss. I use photography to preserve people, places, and histories threatened by displacement and erasure. Bringing these fragments together, Threshold constructs an imagined home from memory, relationships, and material traces. The work considers how belonging can persist beyond citizenship and geography, and how identity is continually remade when the place one calls home is no longer certain.