A collection exploring themes of platonic intimacy and the facility of contact by New England-based photographer Jillian Freyer (beforehand featured right here). Freyer holds an MFA from Yale and a BFA from Massachusetts School of Artwork and Design. Her work explores themes of the familial, shared experiences, and the quotidian. “Pas de Deux” represents a set of pictures taken between 2012-2024. By means of staged performances and statement, Freyer considers the boundaries between magnificence and violence, questioning what differentiates the actions of a dance between two folks and an act of self-defence when, in each situations, the our bodies sway and roll and reveal a way of vulnerability:
“Uncovered bellies, backs of knees, two ladies wrestling, and a pile of palms gathering on my grandmother’s arm. I’ve all the time been drawn to those secret moments, sacred websites inside our inside and most intimate worlds. As I create these pictures, it turns into clear that I’m composing a world the place I need to exist. My digicam mediates between my lived experiences and people I so deeply need, a spot present between the panorama and my lens. These pictures of girls usually are not simply pictures; they’re an providing. They prolong a way of neighborhood, a thread of connection, even in essentially the most solitary of moments.”
