In June, 2005, while traveling in Vietnam, artist Harrell Fletcher
visited The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City. Deeply affected by
the exhibit, Fletcher returned to photograph all of the images and text
descriptions from the main museum with the intention of re-presenting
the exhibition in the United States. Fletcher's exhibition The American
War toured for two years, stopping at various U. S. venues including the
Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M. I. T. and White Columns in New
York City. With this collection of images, Fletcher encourages his
audience to reconsider opinions of the War in Vietnam and other American
wars that have occurred since. Harrell Fletcher is a visual artist
working in mixed media: video, installation, photography and web based
works. His work was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Fletcher has
an MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts and has taught and
lectured in the US and Europe. In Spring 2004, he taught at New York's
Cooper Union. A hallmark of his work is to devise strategies for
transforming the everyday experiences and objects of community residents
into curated exhibitions.
