Casey Carsel
Chicago, IL
Visual Art
Casey Carsel is an Auckland- and Chicago-based artist and writer who seeks to untangle the ways in which cultural narratives embed themselves in diaspora. How do the stories conveyed by traditions, artefacts, and landscape shape identities and create communities? What is cherished and how is it held? Carsel’s work opens a space where, as for the generations that came before and for those who will follow, stories become homes. Through such socially inflected objects, histories, and modes of communication as garlic, the Holocaust, and jokes, their text and textile works hold and share stories of who we are and how we come to be here now.
The outcomes of their investigations have been exhibited as texts and textiles at galleries and fairs including Co-Prosperity, Chicago; Blue Oyster, Dunedin; and Auckland Art Fair. Further works of fiction and creative non-fiction have been published by Bus Projects, Melbourne; The Physics Room, Christchurch; and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago.