Dear Old Nicki: The letters of Leshawn Jackson:

After surviving a violent mugging along Chicago's lakefront in 2023, accountant Leshawn Jackson begins writing a series of private, unsent letters-addressed not to loved ones, but to the early 2000s persona of Nicki Minaj. What starts as nostalgia becomes a coping mechanism, then an obsession, and eventually a fractured dialogue with the alter egos she believes can protect her.
Presented as a case study, Dear Old Nicki compiles Leshawn's letters along with curator's notes that analyze her sh...