May Parlar is an Istanbul-born, Berlin and New York City-based visual artist, whose multidisciplinary practice engages with notions of belonging, identity, grief, love and loss. Concepts of selfhood, female experiences and alienation are recurrent themes in Parlar’s work, which employs performative photography and video art. Collective Solitude is a series of self-portraits created with this innovative visual language, experimenting with the contrasting and uncanny elements of inclusion and exclusion, real and unreal, settled and nomadic. Images from this surreal series were made across multiple countries including Cambodia, Greece, Turkey, Germany Spain and the USA.