PIERCING

Writer: Larry Tremblay

Artist: Petra Mueller

Under the editorial direction of France Choinière
Text in French
1999, 72 pages, $16.80, ISBN: 978-2-922135-06-0

In Piercing, Petra Mueller and Larry Tremblay explore the city, theatre of urban landscapes, where everything becomes possible. In a troubling tale, casting Marie-Hélène, a runaway teenager from Chicoutimi, newly arrived in Montréal, Larry Tremblay offers us an unblinking look at adolescence, at those deeply significant, first painful experiences on the brink of emancipation. In Petra Mueller's images, scattered throughout the text, the city serves as a backdrop to mysterious inscriptions. Each photograph is marked with signs in blue ink, as characters trail their shadows like stains across its surface.

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