Metamorphosis, a retrieval of love

(by Samuel Zhang with Elaine)

68 pages incl. covers

Saddle stitch binding

Edition 50 (20 available)

Dimension: 17cmx21cm

Cover: 320gsm, inner page: 150gsm
Weight:200g

Printed on fine art paper by German Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG

Singed

Context:

This experimental artist 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 reconstructs his form, intertwining two gazes that resonate with robust yet fragile gender norms and infinite desires.