Isolation

Years
2020 – 2021
Works
7
Medium
Archival pigment prints

Made through the long quiet of 2020, Isolation steps away from the book entirely. Alone in the studio, Barer turned the camera toward the figure — a set of close, searching portraits of solitude itself.

A close, contemplative portrait in cool, low light.

Isolation is the quietest body of work here, and the only one without a book in it. Made in a studio Barer entered alone, day after day, while the world outside had gone still, these portraits trade her usual subject for the human face — solitude looked at directly, and held.

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