Fletcher has expressed great admiration for the
writing of WG Sebald, and his work is infused
with the same quality of dreamlike melancholy,
reflecting upon the passage of time and loss.
The six images shown here are from a larger
series that features several of Fletcher’s family
members. The man on stilts is Fletcher’s brother,
and in Untitled #130 his mother is partially
reflected in a mirror. Violence and tenderness,
repulsion and attraction, as well as sadness are
all expressed in this elusive image of a faceless
woman. These intimate photographs are all
shot against the same wall in the artist’s north
London studio. Despite the single, enclosed
location, Fletcher’s series brings the world into
this single frame – the photographs become
a means of travel, suggestive of landscape,
memory, the seasons, and history.



