Alone Together | Charlie Barlow

Alone, Together addresses attachment in the human condition - threat, love and loss - a collective subjective response to the unknown

Alone, Together is formed by two autonomous organisms, slowly stretching and contracting their bodies as they blindly navigate space. With skin shaped from large volumes of Velcro, one coloured white, another black, the two opposites act individually, leaving chance to decide a time to meet. Ambiguous forms immobilise, have crunchy caterpillar contractions and robotic reactions; their soft breath is fragile while their bulk hostile. Together, they tentatively probe and grotesquely engulf one another, unable to separate once connected

Charlie Barlow is an artist working in installation and performance. She received her MA in Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art, London (2018), and was the recipient of the Clare Winsten Memorial Award (2017).