René Clement -Thoughts & Prayers, Insomnia 2022

In the series Thoughts & Prayers, Clement abstracts the familiar Islamic architecture of the city presenting it to us in a dazzling display of overlapping symmetry that seduces and confuses. While at first each image looks familiar Clement makes us look again and question where we truly are and what it is we are seeing.

In the series Insomnia, Clement’s use of mirroring and layering multiple exposures appears to mutate the trees of the city, turning the familiar and benign into fantastical, magical totems. Photographed at night under artificial light individual branches and leaves are multiplied resembling brain synapses alluding to the insomniac’s restless sleep. Clement's photography continues to push our understanding of the post-analogue world. The chemical processes of the darkroom are dispensed with but none of the magic or possibilities. His work makes us re-evaluate what we are seeing and challenges us to look further.

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