BIO Serge Clément’s photography is based on questioning, artistic inquiry and authorship. His work has been the subject of exhibitions in Quebec and France and can be found in collections in Canada, Europe and Hong Kong. He has published several books of photography and has made short films out of photographic images. In 2018, he continued this examination of cinema-photography during an artistic residency at the Cinémathèque québécoise. He has received numerous grants for his work and, in 2012, was awarded the CALQ’s Prix à la création artistique during the Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma.
ARTISTIC PRACTICE With its poetic and puzzling images, Serge Clément’s work ranges from documentary to installation by way of social commentary, poetic narrative and photographic essay. A primordial element of his work in photography is the transition from analogue to digital, and from images taken in reality to screen images. More recently, he has turned to analysing the photographic image, thereby broadening the perspectives of his artistic inquiry and production. The notion of a network has predominated the branching out and graphical signs of his work.
PROJECT Écrans & Réseaux 2.0 plunges into the materiality of the image and of screens. Serge Clément’s project will also address the notion of codified representations in cinema and carry out an open analysis of the image in its extensions. His project is located at the heart of the question of photography in the digital age, with images from Clément’s archives. These archives derive from research into urbanisation and consist also in documentation by means of photograms and in a reconstitution of his cinematic memories. In his recreated studio, he hopes to discuss random encounters of image and content brought out by his encounters with the public.