Serge Clément / Alexis Desgagnés
Métamorphose is a work that was composed with four hands. The first part develops a photographic narrative that the Quebec artist Serge Clément sets up from urban dembulations where he captures in his street photos, situations blurred by the play of reflection or framing that he masters like no other photographer. The gaze sometimes struggles to recognize the elements of the image and reality plays with the metamorphosis of the title.
The head-down bound book turns to allow the reader to enter another narrative, this one textual, composed of short prose poems written by the Montreal writer Alexis Desgagnés whose texts were inspired by the photographs of Serge Clément. Drawings in Indian ink by Alexis Desgagnées bring another dimension to the work.
For the two authors, the animal presence comes out in their photographs, texts or drawings, thus conversing with Ovid to replay a contemporary mythology.
Métamorphose, 13 x 21 cm, 336 pages, 150 reproductions in two-color and four-color, paperback cover with canvas. French text.
Graphic design: Serge Clément, Alexis Desgagnés and Bruno Ricca
ISBN: 978-2-84314-124-9
