Like a journey into the heart of urban solitude and its periphery, Serge Clément’s work draws the viewer into an intimate relationship with the image. As the images accumulate, they create an imaginary density of timeless fragments.
For Clément, photography has always been closely related to the book, particularly along the idea that an image refers to other images. On one hand, it signifies that an image is a leaky container with smoke, fog, streams and rivers, reflections, and streets running across the image. On the other, Serge Clément constantly questions the power of the photographic image to capture reality. A certain street, a certain perspective, this deserted place, the passers-by are not tied to a clearly identifiable world, but belong to the abstract universe of an essentially imaginary city. It is not important to know whether the place in question is Montreal or Tokyo, the viewer may rather lose himself between several places.
Serge Clément (b. 1950 in Valleyfield, Canada) has had solo exhibitions around the world and his works are found in many public and private collections in Canada and abroad.

Editor: Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Authors: Catherine Bédard, Celina Lunsford
Artists: Serge Clément

Designed by Serge Clément, Bruno Ricca
Hardcover
17 x 24 cm
192 pages
141 duotone ills.
German/English/French
available
ISBN
Euro 39,90
2014