NADA House 2021

For the past year, Alix Vernet has been
quietly pulling clay reliefs from the
surfaces of public monuments and
sites around New York. As the country
faced a larger reckoning of its imperialist
history, Alix was shadowing Theo Boggs,
a monument technician from NYC
Parks who restores and cleans facades.
Her work has produced a series of
photographs and renegade impressions
of the lettering and visual motifs found
at these sites. Seen together, City
"When Will You Keep Your Promise?"
presents a rebuke of permanence and
an investigation into the instability,
maintenance, and care that define the
fabric of the city.