
Street Casts
- Publisher
- Dashwood Books
- Year
- 2023
- Specifications
- Zine
20 pages
5.25 x 8 in
First edition
A zine made to accompany Alix Vernet's exhibition at Helena Anrather, 132 Bowery, New York, from 7 July to 11 August 2023. In her first documented series, it follows the artist's process of making guerrilla moulds of the building facades and sidewalks of Lower Manhattan. Through ceramic sculpture and photographs she has developed a way of isolating, replicating and rearranging material fragments of the built environment to reveal the continually shifting terrain of the city's urban fabric. The black-and-white pictures show her at work, pouring plaster from a bucket into a cardboard mould on the pavement, white plaster running down a tenement facade with a fire escape, and a round cast of a manhole cover held upright in the street.