Ignored, stepped over, or worse, a city’s homeless population is more than an inconvenience to artist Andres Serrano. The American photographer first photographed the homeless of New York 25 years ago for his Nomad series, and has returned to the topic for Residents of New York – this time engaging with his subjects on the streets where they live instead of the studio.
The streets also provide the gallery setting for this exhibition, for the collection is being presented as a site-specific installation in various locations Manhattan, including Washington Square, a full takeover of the West 4th Street subway station, LaGuardia Place, the Judson Memorial Church and phone booths and kiosks in the surrounding area. The scale of the works demand to be noticed in a way that the homeless so often aren’t, giving an identity to the people who are passed by and ignored on a regular basis. Residents of New York is running until 15 June, and has been produced in conjunction with non-profit More Art.
