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within the exhibition that brings disconnection to the fore so as to make viewers grapple with it. In a recent interview with Poet’s Country, philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler commented that it is “hard to stay sensate during these times, to see and feel and hear what is happening”.3 The exhibition Home Alone To- gether invites us to stay sensate. It invites us to attend to what is happening around us. After all, Home Alone Together is a project of collaboration. The artists and curators summon us to come together as they have. They encourage us to notice our everyday, to look around and see so as to feel the ripples of blue in our slept-in bedsheets, the green roots growing, despite all odds, out from the leaves we clipped months ago, the way the light catches our bodies and casts us, silhouetted, onto our four walls. Perceiving others’ lives as they continue inside the walls that separate them from us, we are invited to notice and thus feel connected through what is otherwise socially distant. The exhibition instantiates a feeling of connection through the places where we dwell. In so doing, it contributes to the very revolution of relating that is taking place in our midst. Home Alone Together is art that invites us to attend to our own surroundings through its attention to the surroundings of the artists. In this way the exhibition, to borrow language from Augustine, transforms the home through image into a place where “absolute concord and unity” can be en- joyed. This unity does not depend upon the home being “heavenly”, though. Rather, it depends upon sharing intimacies. The exhibition is a sight of tran- scendence. It encourages us to get beyond ourselves through the places we call “home”. A selection of works from Home Alone Together will be shown alongside an exhibition by Julia Alcamo titled All We Have Stories at the Dadian Gallery in the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts & Religion in Washington, DC in the spring of 2021. Until it can be experienced in person, the exhibition will be shared through virtual tours and videos. It will be kept open until it can be shared in person, probably not before the summer. Bibliography Augustine, 1991, Confessions, trans. Henry Chadwick, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Butler, Judith, 2020, An Interview with Judith Butler, Poet’s Country, https://poetscountry. com/An-Interview-with-Judith-Butler [accessed 7 December 2020]. 3 Butler 2020. Exhibition Review: Home Alone Together | 215www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/1, 211–215