Limen explores what it means to grow up with or without the ritual that, in many Latin American communities, marks the passage from girl to woman. The project starts from a personal absence and opens into a larger question: what does the quinceañera do socially as a rite of passage, and what happens when it never takes place?

Through four interviews with women in very different relationships to the ritual, one who never had it, one who lived it twice between Spain and Cuba, and two who are about to celebrate it, the project listens to how each of them remembers, imagines, or reconstructs that moment. Reading these conversations through the work of van Gennep and Turner, the ritual reveals itself in three phases: separation, liminality, and aggregation, all of them held together by the community that witnesses the change.

Photography becomes the place where these stories take form. In the studio, each woman is invited to inhabit the ritual through its objects and gestures: putting on the tiara, holding the last toy, slipping into the heels.

For some it is memory, for others a rehearsal. A sequence of frames from a waltz rehearsal without a chambelán becomes the most direct image of what the project is really about, a gesture reaching toward an empty space, a ritual that never quite happened.

The work does not try to repair that absence. It gives it form, names it, and turns it into something that can be looked at.