Minéral

2017
SERGE CLÉMENT

This poster was part of the exhibition Mémoire de l’avenir (2021): an urban poster exhibition representing the works of established and emerging artists. 

This project was born from a desire to create connections between different generations of Quebec artists.

The exhibition, curated by Kama La Mackerel, was made up of 3 pairs, each comprising an emerging artist and an established artist. These encounters allow us to immerse ourselves in Quebec art, in our everyday lives, and to reflect on the progression of certain themes in today's artistic imagination.             

From November to December 2021, these posters were exhibited in the streets of Montréal · Tiohtià:ke on Publicité Sauvage’s palisad

Serge Clément's work, Minéral (black and white photograph, 2017) asks us to question our relationship to urbanity and public space. In this photograph, our gaze finds itself inside a scaffold and moves towards an urban exterior in the process of demolition. The scaffolding embodies change, construction, the new base of a building to come. From this metal frame, the work prompts us to ask: what must disappear to make way for a new urban structure? From the perspective of this construction fence, we see a small Montreal house, a classic duplex, in the process of disappearing under the weight of the scaffolding that surrounds it. Part of the building has already been razed, and we can make out, barely standing, windows, a balcony... Who owns this house? What is the history of the people who live there? Are these people being displaced from their anchorage to make way for the new structure that is being erected? What are the stories that are lost in this construction process?

Poster dimensions: 24 × 36”. Paper: matte, 189 g/m², acid-free.
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