Synopsis:

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Metamorphosis,

A retrieval of love

(2024)

 

A photobook by SAMUEL ZHANG

with Elaine

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68p incl. covers 

Printed by: German Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG

 

Signed Edition: 50

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This experimental artist's book integrates original paintings, archival photos, and B&W film images. With inherent dialogic qualities, it depicts the intense and poetic transformations of two lovers across time and space, with complex shifts in body and identity occurring within the dialogue of body contact, traced back to one of them assigned gender. As he obsessively photographs her body, she reconstructed his form, intertwining two gazes that resonate with robust yet fragile gender norms and infinite desires.

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If you're interested in collecting one cope, you can get it from The Common Press bookshop in East London or

my online bookstore here