Le travail de Nicole R. Fleetwood explore l'intersection de l'art et de l'incarcération de masse. Elle examine de manière critique comment la culture visuelle reflète et façonne notre compréhension du système carcéral et de l'injustice raciale aux États-Unis. Fleetwood analyse comment les œuvres d'art et les représentations visuelles révèlent les conséquences sociales et politiques inhérentes à ce système. Son approche perspicace offre une exploration approfondie des liens complexes entre l'art, la race et la répression.
Nicole Fleetwood enters American prisons to explore the creativity flourishing there. Though isolated and degraded, incarcerated artists produce bold works that testify to the economic and racial injustice of American punishment. These pieces, many published here for the first time, offer a new vision of freedom for the twenty-first century.
Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System features work by artists from across the nation that addresses the criminal justice system, mass incarceration, and the prison-industrial complex. Representing the full range of contemporary art production made in the studio and the social realm, the exhibition includes artworks that take social justice issues as a subject matter; and position the prison and court systems as structures for dismantling through institutional critique. The artworks in the exhibition are extraordinary for the scale and ambition by which they mobilize in order to bring visibility to offenses within the justice system.