About
Home Alone Together is both an exhibition and a journal. Through the eyes of twenty-five artists around the world—from their 20s to their 90s—it explores the shared, bounded environment in which people across the world now live.
Quarantine is quickly redefining and reconfiguring how people experience home. It can be a space of refuge—representing safety from a nebulous, deadly threat—but also something of a pressure cooker. We are all caught up in a strange experiment of uncertain duration. Even those fortunate enough to escape direct loss and trauma are being forced to reckon with new realities—economic, emotional, spiritual—from the (dis)comfort of their own home.
In this unsettled moment, artists can help draw our experience into focus. Every week for the next three months, participating artists will contribute one photograph from a different room of their home. Together, these photographs—whether taken in a kitchen or bedroom, the world outside the window, or even the virtual space of technology—will articulate a new, collective picture of home.
We hope this project will create an opportunity to locate something of that quality Gaston Bachelard called “intimate immensity.” What we see has become limited, but not how we see. When the pandemic subsides and we re-enter the world, perhaps our way of seeing will have changed along with us. Maybe we will be more prepared to encounter transcendence, even—perhaps especially—in the mundane.
Co-Curators: S. Billie Mandle and Dr. Aaron Rosen
Project Manager: Taylor Curry
Director of Communications: Meaghan Ritchey, Image