City of Displaced Persons

Lera Lerner

2022
In storage

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About the work

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.

About the artist

  • Lera Lerner

    Year of birth: 1988
    • GND 135948390X
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    Lera Lerner was born in Leningrad. She graduated from the Faculty of Soil Biology at St. Petersburg State University (2012) and the PRO ARTE Foundation’s Young Artists’ School (St. Petersburg, 2015). She has taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including Not a Museum. Laboratory of Aesthetic Suspicions (Novaya Industriya Art Space, St. Petersburg, 2014), Life of the Living (Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod; National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, 2016–2017), Intervention: Follow Instructions or Don’t (General Staff Building, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 2018), Bureau des transmissions (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2019), and Open Borders (Ploshchad Mira Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, 2019). She is the founder of the Imaginary Museum of Displaced Persons.

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