Authors: Jean-Michel Quirion
[September 17, 2025] Passages Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie 15.07.2025 – 30.09.2025 Every summer since 2009, Les Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie has stood out as an unmissable destination on my cultural itinerary. For its sixteenth edition, the event chose the theme “Passages” as a guide to visiting its territories; with its plural […]
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-Michel Quirion | Artists: Sébastien Cliche
[Fall 2025] Fluctuation du semblable by Jean-Michel Quirion Occurrence, espace d’art et d’essai contemporains, Montréal 18.01.2025 — 15.03.2025 [EXCERPT] In Fluctuation du semblable, a body of work presented in a solo exhibition at Occurrence, we were abruptly immersed by the Montreal artist Sébastien Cliche into the elsewhere of a speculative dehumanized society. The gallery, usually […]
Ciel variable 129 - FROM CONTINENT TO CONTINENT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-Michel Quirion
[Summer 2025] Connecting From the Inside Out by Jean-Michel Quirion [EXCERPT] The multidisciplinary artist My-Van Dam’s exhibition Connecting From the Inside Out, presented at MAI in fall 2024 and curated by Geneviève Wallen, evinces striking fragility. During an intensive month-long research-creation residency at SBC Galerie d’art contemporain in summer 2023 (with support from Atelier circulaire […]
Ciel variable 128 – CHANGE OF SCENE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-Michel Quirion | Artists: Yann Pocreau
The second iteration of a project on color and light, Yann Pocreau’s exhibition at the Centre Sagamie took the form of a collection of photographic, cinematic and expographical atmospheres. The content was not the result of taking photographs, but of collecting found images and intervening on them in various ways.
Ciel variable 127 – SISTERS, FIGHTERS, QUEENS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-Michel Quirion | Artists: Simon S. Belleau
Montreal artist Simon S. Belleau’s most important exhibition in his decade-long career, Répliques, combined a film, works on paper, and an architectural intervention. Ambitious and spectacular, in the view of Jean-Michel Quirion, Belleau’s offering evoked the work in preparation or backstage in a theatre or film set, by paying attention to what is made visible and what is hidden.
Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-Michel Quirion | Artists: Emmanuel Galland, Josué Azor, Roberto Stephenson
[Winter 2024] By Jean-Michel Quirion Art-image et espace Odyssée de la Maison de la culture de Gatineau 6.07.2023 — 27.08.2023 [Excerpt] The travelling exhibition Haïti – Territoires informels, an initiative by the Montreal artist and curator Emmanuel Galland, is deployed in three series of images by three photographers: Galland himself and the Haitian photographers Josué […]
Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-Michel Quirion | Artists: Michelle Bui
[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Parisian Laundry, Montréal Du 18 avril au 25 mai 2019 Par Jean-Michel Quirion (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.] Purchase this issue
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-Michel Quirion | Artists: Lucie Rocher
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.