This publication presents three photographic series by artist Matthieu Brouillard accompanied by an essay by author James D. Campbell developing an original point of view on the dark and singular work of the artist. He proposes the idea of the human being as a split, fragmented, refracted animal, constantly shifted in relation to itself, and which is expressed in the images through the representation of the body. He also addresses the notion of human / transhuman metamorphosis, resulting from a global loss of meaning or significance that he manifests to the reader through the collapse of the boundaries that separate the human and the object, the inside and the outside, the natural and the artificial, the self and the other, etc.
"...] Brouillard is a Lon Chaney of the present times of the photographic image, a master of deformation as well as ventriloquism. He is another talented purveyor of the deformities and melancholy grotesqueries of life in imbalance. But like Chaney, he is also a brilliant chameleon, and a transcendent interpreter of the human condition."
- Excerpt from Teatro Grottesco : The Tormented Consciousness of Matthew Fog, by James D. Campbell
