A title that could not be more enigmatic, but which nevertheless very well evokes the theme of an identity in transition at the heart of the fragments of memory brought together by the non-binary artist Zed Cézard in a collection of poetic prose.
The theme of impermanence is presented through strong reflections on love, death, friendship, mental health, the perception of time (the one which has passed and the other, which still clings in the present) and, at the heart of this fluctuating mechanism, the keystone that constitutes the very concept of identity.
Between memories and reflections, the author reveals himself nakedly through shocking sentences often of astonishing simplicity: “One afternoon which seemed suffocating to us, he asked me to take him for a walk to a place where I often passed. While walking towards my high school, he told me that In life, there are three essential verbs: to have, to appear and to be.
And that it had been a long time since he had chosen his. »
“Transitioning feels like walking away from everything except yourself. »
“I feel like I’m behind the scenes before I go on stage. Ready to meet a person that people have talked to me about all my life without being able to see them, and who suddenly appears like a watercolor that has been stripped of too much water. »
An inside look at the transition where the formal and the informal, the reasoned and the emotional combine delicately.
INFO | This is how I am nobody: poetics of inbeing / Zed Cézard. Montreal: All in all, 2024, 117 p.
