City of Displaced Persons

Artist Lera Lerner collected 23 stories of real people who she met on the street and who come from marginalized social groups but are involved with creative practices that Lerner considers make them artists. The story of each person is presented as a small book or artifact reflecting the essence of their creative practice. The stories are “put away” in pockets that are sewn onto a real shirt, which makes the book like a (literal) found archive of street art.

The book was created as part of the Garage Library project Single Copy.