James D. Campbell

Vide et Vertige – James D. Campbell

Exhibition Reviews
Ciel variable 107 - RUINS

October 10, 2017 by cielvariable

[Fall 2017] Jocelyne Alloucherie, Ivan Binet, and Mathieu Cardin Vide et vertige 1700 La Poste, Montreal March 24–June 18, 2017 By James D. Campbell [Excerpt] This exhibition of works by Jocelyne Alloucherie, Ivan Binet, and Mathieu Cardin was brilliantly dovetailed in terms of theme – the constructive notion of “vertigo” and the viewer’s experience in […]

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Fiona Annis – James D. Campbell

Exhibition Reviews
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS

May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] Les révolutions sidérales Plein Sud October 1–November 5, 2016 by James D. Campbell [Excerpt] In the photoworks in this exhibition, Fiona Annis dilated with poetic acuity on the clockwork of the heavens. She mined resources as varied and recondite as the first spectroscopic data on the trajectory of Halley’s Comet, recorded in 1910, […]

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Jessica Eaton, Colour Is a Verb – James D. Campbell

Essays
Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES

February 9, 2017 by cielvariable

[Winter 2017] by James D. Campbell [Excerpt] Jessica Eaton, a fast-rising star in the photographic world, has for some time now explored the notion of “colour is a verb” with rare verve, intensity, and thematic abandon. In her recent dovetailing series of works shown at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran in Montreal as part of an exhibition […]

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Marisa Portolese, Belle de jour III: Dialogues with Notman’s Portraits of Women – James D. Campbell, More than Meets Her Eye: A Dimensional Portraiture

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Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE

September 26, 2016 by cielvariable

[Fall 2016] par James D. Campbell [Excerpt] Montreal-based fine-art photographer Marisa Portolese has garnered well-deserved acclaim for the clarity and lush chromatic and emotional dimensionality of her images. The third instalment of her long-running photographic series of portraits of women and girls titled Belle de jour – recently the subject of an exhibition at Concordia’s […]

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Kate Hutchinson, The Park – James D. Campbell

Book Reviews
Ciel variable 103 - NATURE

May 17, 2016 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2016] The Park Kate Hutchinson Les Éditions du renard, Montréal, 2015, 140 pages, ill. colour Postface by Cynthia Imogen Hammond by James D. Campbell [Excerpt] Sometime in the early twenty-third century, a sealed copper box is found interred at the foot of the excavated cross on top of Montreal’s estimable Mount Royal. Once opened, archaeologists […]

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Jessica Auer, January – James D. Campbell, Bluer than Blue

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Ciel variable 103 - NATURE

May 17, 2016 by cielvariable

[Spring/Summer 2016] [Excerpt] Who better than a seasoned photographer to explore the phenomenology of light? Jessica Auer’s recent series January, created during a 2015 residency in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, is a thematic work of great visual poetry the resonance of which lingers within us like a memory of bluer-than-blue Icelandic light, long after we have left […]

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Alain Lefort, PEQUOD (‘pi ‘kwad) – James D. Campbell

Exhibition Reviews
Ciel variable 101 - STRATA

September 17, 2015 by cielvariable

Plein sud, Longueuil February 21 to May 18, 2015 by James D. Campbell Purchase this article

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Kathleen Ritter, Camoufleurs – James D. Campbell

Exhibition Reviews
Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY

May 1, 2015 by cielvariable

Kathleen Ritter Camoufleurs Battat Contemporary, Montreal December 4, 2014 to February 8, 2015 By James D. Campbell Purchase this article

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À louer / For Rent : UMA, various venues, Montreal – James D. Campbell

Exhibition Reviews
Ciel variable 92 – TRUE NORTH

September 1, 2012 by cielvariable

October 4, 2017 [originally published in CV92 in Fall 2012] — UMA, Montreal’s estimable Maison de l’image et de la photographie, has taken a valuable and highly laudatory initiative in seeking out vacant commercial spaces throughout Montreal and installing photographic works in their windows. What was once a forlorn blank slate of the inner city becomes a vibrant forum for the photographic image. The works remain on view until the spaces are rented or sold…

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Scott Chandler, Fordlândia – James D. Campbell

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Ciel variable 91 – OUR WORLD

April 1, 2012 by cv-content

August 2, 2017 [originally published in CV91 in Spring 2012] — Scott Chandler’s recent work opens a window on a place and a time unknown to us. With an “under-the-radar” documentary ethic and his cumbersome camera equipment, he travelled to the Brazilian Amazon to photograph eloquent ruins hidden for generations from the outside world.

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Chih-Chien Wang, Short Sentences – James D. Campbell

Exhibition Reviews
Ciel variable 89 - PLACES

September 1, 2011 by cv-content

February 9, 2017 [originally published in CV89 in Fall 2011] — In Short Sentences, an aptly titled show of recent photographic and video work, Chih-Chien Wang offers a moving photographic journey that is also a poetic reverie on words and things, life and death. The show is fittingly bracketed by an image of the artist’s son asleep, and another of his son being breastfed by his partner, Yushan. In the former, Shaore Lies on Futon, a photograph of his son lying prone on a futon in deep sleep, Wang evokes the fragility of young life.

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Marisa Portolese – James D. Campbell

Exhibition Reviews
Ciel variable 87 – SERIES

January 1, 2011 by cv-content

September 13, 2016 [originally published in Winter 2011] — While acclaimed Montreal-based photographic artist Marisa Portolese has always used people she knows as subjects in her work, her new photographic series, Dream Weavers (of which this show, “Pietà,” is a stand-alone excerpt), marks something of a departure. Here, she turns inwards, essaying an up-close-and-personal narrative involving members of her own family while constructing a poetic meta-narrative that is rife with feelings, memories, and the numinous.

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Péripéties – James D. Campbell

Exhibition Reviews
Ciel variable 86 - PERFORMANCE

September 1, 2010 by cv-content

June 23, 2016 [originally published in Fall 2010] — This exhibition highlights narrative disruption and its consequences in five mature bodies of photographic and video work, and demonstrates how the uncanny seeps in and out of those ruptures in an auratic and seismic way, even as meaning and dénouement are delayed. Works by Bettina Hoffman, Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Milutin Gubash, Eve K. Tremblay, and Chih-Chien Wang…

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Raymonde April, Equivalences 1-4 – James D. Campbell

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Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT

June 1, 2010 by cv-content

April 6, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — Why is it that Raymonde April’s art always occupies the foreground of my consciousness when I think about photography – about what it is and what it can be ? Even as flashier and more graphically cinematographic photography rules the proverbial roost in the art world right now, April, a maverick artist, has long since staked out her territory and made it her wholly and uniquely her own.

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Guido Guidi, Carlo Scarpa’s Tomba Brion: Photographs by Guido Guidi, 1997–2007 – James D. Campbell

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Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED

May 1, 2010 by cv-content

[Spring 2010] CCA, Montreal September 11, 2009, to January 10, 2010 Nestled within the CCA’s Octagonal Gallery in conceptually elegant fashion, this thematic body of photographic work by the Italian photographer Guido Guidi paid tribute to an architectural masterwork while highlighting his own various strengths and idiosyncrasies as a creative artist preoccupied, for the last […]

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Manon De Pauw, Intrigues – James D. Campbell

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Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES

October 15, 2009 by cielvariable

[Fall 2009] Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal February 27 to March 28, 2009 Manon De Pauw practices a corporeal poetics as inventive and involute in its physical articulation as it is varied and inviting in its philosophical approach. Her manner of thinking the body – the “universal thing” – sheds light on the meaning of corporeality […]

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Thomas Corriveau, Autofictions – James D. Campbell

Exhibition Reviews
Ciel variable 82 – PUBLIC ART

June 1, 2009 by cielvariable

[Summer 2009] Galerie Graff November 13 to December 20, 2008 We are living in a telematically attuned present tense. We are bombarded, even besieged, by endless streaming images and data feeds coming in from all sides, all the time. How we fend off the barrage or negotiate détente with it shapes the condition of our […]

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Emmanuelle Léonard, L’Annonciation – James D. Campbell

Exhibition Reviews
Ciel variable 80 - IMAGE BANKS

September 1, 2008 by cv-content

[Fall 2008] Donald Browne Galery, Montreal April 19–May 24, 2008 In her new exhibition at Galerie Donald Browne, Emmanuel Léonard made her consummately subversive voice heard from the outset. Her singular art of juxtaposition, theatricality, gathered “evidence,” and narrative layering once again adumbrated an environmental volume that radically exceeded the sum of its parts. The […]

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Luis Jacob, Album IV – James D. Campbell, I.O.U. (Intersubjectivity, Optimism, Utopia): Reflections on Luis Jacob’s Image Archive

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Ciel variable 80 - IMAGE BANKS

September 1, 2008 by cielvariable

[Fall 2008] By juxtaposing images of people interacting, architectural facades, works of art, pieces of furniture, and other motifs, Jacobs has woven a microcosm of humanity at work and at play. This album is a living portrait of the world, at the heart of which he has placed inter-subjectivity, exploration, and inventiveness. This grouping of […]

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Charles Gagnon – James D. Campbell

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Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY

June 1, 2008 by cv-content

[Summer 2008] Galerie Roger Bellemare, Montreal October 6 – October 27, 2007 The stark elegance of Charles Gagnon’s photographic oeuvre is one of its defining characteristics. It is always, however, underscored by powerfully enigmatic markers. Those indexical markers are like fingers pointing to unseen presences – or a transcendent reality. Gagnon was always a champion […]

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Susan Bozic, The Dating Portfolio – James D. Campbell

Exhibition Reviews
Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY

March 1, 2008 by cielvariable

[Spring 2008] Galerie Art Mur, Montreal August 18 – September 22, 2007 Susan Bozic’s latest series, The Dating Portfolio, elicits easy, involuntary smiles but poses a serious question or two that leave the viewer in an interrogatory frame of mind. Bozic appears in each of these medium-to-large-scale photographs in the company of a plastic (clothed) […]

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Montreal Collects, Contemporary Photography: The LaRochelle and Taillefer collections – James Campbell

Essays
Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY

March 1, 2008 by cielvariable

[Spring 2008] by James Campbell Interest in contemporary photography has reached a fever pitch. In 2006, at Sotheby’s in New York, a huge colour print by Andreas Gursky (dating from 1999) went on the block and sold for $2,256,000. Six months earlier, Richard Prince’s seminal work Untitled (Cowboy), a 1989 Ektacolor print of the Marlboro man, […]

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Ève K. Tremblay, Postures scientifiques – James D. Campbell

Exhibition Reviews
Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM

September 1, 2007 by cielvariable

[Fall 2007] Galerie Donald Browne, Montreal, April 7 – May 12, 2007 The photographic speculative fictions that Eve K. Tremblay exhibited at Galerie Donald Browne bore the same enigmatic hallmark as has all her earlier work. Set in some day-after-tomorrow but finally in an indeterminate tense, these works challenge the viewer, who must interpret what […]

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Lynne Cohen and Denis Farley, Access Points – James D. Campbell

Exhibition Reviews
Ciel variable 76 - MAPPING

June 1, 2007 by cielvariable

[Summer 2007] Parisian Laundry, Montréal January 12 – February 24, 2007 This welcome, timely, and provocative exhibition of photographic works by Lynne Cohen and Denis Farley shed considerable light on their respective oeuvres in a truly dialogical fashion. Lynne Cohen’s photographs have never looked more seductive and unsettling than they do in the present exhibition. […]

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