Casey Fletcher (b.1993) is an interdisciplinary artist raised in Vermont and currently based in Madison, Wisconsin. His practice interrogates notions of Blackness in America, global histories of Christian faith and practice, and the pathophysiology of life-threatening allergies. At the center of these disparate themes is a concern with what human beings owe each other through comparisons to that which is considered the inhuman. Fletcher’s strategies of representation are informed by Trinh T. Minh-ha’s notion of “speaking nearby” in which things are named by what they are not rather than what they are. He does so to avoid assuming the role of expert or advocate to instead take on the role of liaison and storyteller. The stories relayed in his practice encourage viewers to bypass conclusions in order to foster inquiry towards and reflection.
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