ENTANGLED

We are pleased to announce a new remastered edition of Entangled, Arsenault's highly sought-after first monograph. While retaining the same sequence and the same design as the original print, we have improved binding and materials, printed in five colors on Japanese paper special woodless. Our first ever reprint, Entangled, brings back the Maude Arsenault's award-winning first monograph - originally published and quickly sold out in 2020. Entangled embodies a pivotal moment in the work by Maude Arsenault, representing a change of perspective and personal responsibility. "After years of dedicated image creation of glorified women, she says of her success in photographing fashion, I came to question my role and influence in the transmission of models of femininity. Although nourished by an education progressive and non-binary, this introspection is necessary today, in the context of motherhood, while raising three children, one of whom young woman. When she speaks of Entangled, Arsenault invokes the French word carcan - which means "stratagem", "ambush" or "ideological trap" - for explain the underlying motivation that drove her to make the images stripped down and evocative of this first monograph. By this she means that Becoming an adult and a parent has allowed her to gain some distance and a step back from the cultural demands imposed on bodies and societal roles of young women, and in particular in relation to the choices of lives that have been restricted, even predestined. Ms. Arsenault describes her work of "poem, ode, cry", and one feels that the quiet strength of the book lies in the contradictions that remain unresolved, even if the author wins in experience and independence. "I often feel trapped in the person that I have tried to be all my life," she said in a touching statement and revealing, which perfectly echoes the finely calibrated tensions and the temporary triumphs evoked in these pages. "Today I stand, trembling but alive, looking at my world as a woman with the best possible hope.