Bear was created during the 2021 lockdown. It builds directly on Lamb, 2019, a study of ewes undergoing labor, giving birth, and tending to their young within a lambing shed in the Scottish Hebrides. Despite the camera’s potential invasiveness, the animals remain unperturbed and ultimately unknowable. In Bear, Nashashibi/Skaer overlay footage shot in the same shed with restless ink marks and smudges that coalesce into ursine silhouettes. The sheep uncannily metamorphose into their predators so that shadowy threats stalk the warm, straw-filled barn. Catherine Spencer, Artforum
