SACRE (SPECIAL EDT OF 22 COPIES WITH PRINT)

Elie Monferier
SACRE (SPECIAL EDT OF 22 COPIES WITH PRINT)

Photographs: Elie Monferier

Text: Elie Monferier

Publisher: self published

126 pages

Year: 2022

Comments: Handmade photobook. Semi-rigid cover housed in Kraft slipcase with the title silkscreened on it, 40 x 25 cm. Xerographic printing on 80 gr Bulk paper. Design by Elie Monferier.The special edition of the book is limited of 22 copies numbered and signed with a Canson baryta print (30 x 20 cm).

"It is a world whose borders have the density of fog. A world of doubts and instincts where everything is viscerally united to the earth - the simple gestures, the straw hair and the straight looks, the bodies like gnarled stumps, the animals to be fed in the early morning, the echo of the dogs barking when the stranger approaches, the vast plains beaten by the rain. It is all about power relationships, the violence that binds people together, and greater, livelier, more mysterious forces, where the smell of carrion and infants, the sound of straw fires and flashes of heat, the foreboding of the coming storm are all mixed together."

With Sacre, the second part of the Mythologies trilogy, Elie Monferier focuses on bodies and the passage of time, and on the greatness that lies in the fragility of our existence. He delivers a world where vital energy and the resilience of bodies, the stripping and the severity of the elements, the solitude and the fraternity of individuals in the face of death predominate.

Sacre is the second chapter of a trilogy on the human condition, begun with Sang Noir.