Meet the academic and curator building a community for formerly incarcerated artists.
The academic and curator has built a community of artists inside and outside carceral walls through her book and exhibition “Marking TimeCourtesy of Lanscine Janneh/BFA. Image treatment by Ashley Peña for W.
It was in Ohio where Fleetwood directly witnessed the convoluted relationship between environmental devastation and mass incarceration. As a result of artificial environments her community was made especially vulnerable to excessive policing and punitive surveillance. “All of these things are very interlinked,” she says from her Harlem apartment on a Tuesday afternoon Zoom call, “and impacted the way that my male cousins especially were handled—literally, physically handled—in public spaces.
The concept behind Fleetwood’s project “Marking Time” was born when she hung photographs of her cousins in Ohio prisons on the walls of her Harlem apartment in 2010. “In talking to those pictures, I was trying to bring [my cousins] to life,” Fleetwood says. “I realized by not acknowledging their presence so directly, I was actually reproducing the logic of the carceral state.
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