And the Street

Author: Pierre Alferi

Translator: Cole Swensen

Publisher: Green Linden Press (2023)

The street is increasingly the stage on which confrontations and confluences among migrants, police, protestors, and neighbors play out in Europe, especially in France. Depicting this life and the absurdities of contemporary consumer society that go along with it, Alferi uses minimalist forms to accentuate a focus on minute detail, on the small fragilities of the urban ecosystem that often go unnoticed, from mold to insects to security cameras. His work focuses on current political realities, not in their headline versions, but in the intimate, lived experience of those at their heart.