Ciel variable 107 – RUINS

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[Fall 2017]

The artists whose works are brought together here under the theme of ruins are interested in capturing the traces of a disappearing world, a world in which the evolution of the photographic image is symptomatic of a more fundamental transformation of culture and social values as a whole.

Three Moments of Ruin

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Fall 2017] The artists whose works are brought together here under the theme of ruins are interested in capturing the traces of a disappearing world, a world in which the evolution of the photographic image is symptomatic of a more fundamental transformation of culture and social values as a whole. These are the ruins that […]

Ruins

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Portfolios
Artists: André Barrette, Joan Fontcuberta, Michel Campeau

The artists whose works are brought together here under the theme of ruins are interested in capturing the traces of a disappearing world, a world in which the evolution of the photographic image is symptomatic of a more fundamental transformation of culture and social values as a whole. Michel Campeau – The Donkey that became […]

Michel Campeau, The Donkey that Became a Zebra : histoires de chambre noire – Joan Fontcuberta, Fire, Prayers and the Place of Photography

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Portfolios
Authors: Joan Fontcuberta | Artists: Michel Campeau

[Fall 2017] By Joan Fontcuberta [Excerpt] What remains of photography in the era of post-truth and the selfie, of Facebook’s indiscreet rear windows and the Sirens of consumerism, emojis, and spam? Who will intone the elegy for the art of light? Just when we thought we had all the answers to the enigma of our […]

André Barrette, Fin de Siglo – Alexis Desgagnés, Fin de siècle in Cuba

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Portfolios
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés | Artists: André Barrette

[Fall 2017] By Alexis Desgagnés [Excerpt] André Barrette likely never wanted his art in the spotlight. That is why, outside of the community of artist-run centres in Quebec City, relatively little is known about his discreet but important contribution to Quebec photography landscape in recent decades. Yet, from his obvious affection for cultural manifestations that […]

Joan Fontcuberta, Trauma – Sylvain Campeau, Autopsy of a Disappearance

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Joan Fontcuberta

[Fall 2017] By Sylvain Campeau [Excerpt] It has often seemed to me that Joan Fontcuberta’s particular aesthetic involves two complementary aspects. One aspect might bring together works such as Fauna Secreta, Sputnik, The Artist and the Photograph, and the Miracles & Co. project. In all of these series, the photographic image is presented as an […]

Emanuel Licha, The Work of Seeing – Guillaume Lafleur

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Essays
Authors: Guillaume Lafleur | Artists: Emanuel Licha

[Fall 2017] By Guillaume Lafleur [Excerpt] We are seeing more and more experimental documentary cinema at festivals, at which the programming naturally includes a fair dose of representation of geopolitical issues. Although environmental issues are core to this new trend, this is only one facet of productions that also explore both older and current forms […]

Katia Kameli, Délio Jasse, Vasco Araújo, Photographs Back from the Void… – Érika Nimis

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Essays
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Délio Jasse, Katia Kameli, Vasco Araújo

[Fall 2017] By Érika Nimis [Excerpt] Three solo exhibitions1 (Katia Kameli, Délio Jasse, and Vasco Araújo) organized in London late in 2016 featured episodes from African and European history, particularly during the colonial period, in which the artists used “traces,”2 mainly photographic corpuses dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, updated via different media and […]

NFB, Still Photography Division Service – Pierre Dessureault

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Essays
Authors: Pierre Dessureault

[Fall 2017] By Pierre Dessureault [Excerpt] The NFB’s Still Photography Division was created in 1941, as a Canadian government information agency under the direction of John Grierson. By 1985, when the small unit’s production, now a collection of photographs, became the core of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Division had produced some 250,000 […]

Perpetual Revolution – Daniel Fiset

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Daniel Fiset

[Fall 2017] Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change International Center of Photography, New York Du 27 janvier au 7 mai 2017 Par Daniel Fiset (French only)   [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.]   Purchase this article

Nelson Henricks – Charles Guilbert

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Nelson Henricks

[Fall 2017] Life Session Optica Du 28 janvier au 25 mars 2017 Par Charles Guilbert (French only) [Suite de l’article et autres images dans les versions imprimée et numérique du magazine.]   Purchase this article

Evergon et Jean-Jacques Ringuette – Karl-Gilbert Murray

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Karl-Gilbert Murray | Artists: Evergon, Jean-Jacques Ringuette

[Fall 2017] Housebound: Portraits from the Winter Garden Galerie Trois Points, Montréal Du 11 mars au 29 avril 2017 Par Karl-Gilbert Murray (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.] Purchase this article

Vide et Vertige – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Ivan Binet, Jocelyne Alloucherie, Mathieu Cardin

[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 […]

Serge Tousignant – Christian Roy

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Serge Tousignant

[Fall 2017] Exposés de recherche VOX, Centre de l’image contemporaine Du 13 avril au 23 juin 2017 Par Christian Roy (French only)   [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.]   Purchase this article

Sara A. Tremblay et Léna Mill-Reuillard – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Léna Mill-Reuillard, Sara A. Tremblay

[Fall 2017] Géographies : recomposées. S’ensevelir Maison des arts de Laval, salle Alfred-Pellan Du 7 mai au 16 juillet 2017 Par Sylvain Campeau (French only)   [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.]   Purchase this article

Peter Campus – Michèle Cohen Hadria

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Peter Campus

[Fall 2017] video ergo sum Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris Du 14 février au 25 mai 2017 Par Michèle Cohen Hadria (French only)   [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.]   Purchase this article

Pauline Boudry et Renate Lorenz – Milly-Alexandra Dery et Laurence Garneau

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Laurence Garneau, Milly-Alexandra Dery | Artists: Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz

[Fall 2017] Everybody talks about the weather… We don’t Participant Inc., New York Du 2 juin au 16 juillet 2017 Par Milly-Alexandra Dery et Laurence Garneau (French only)   [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.]   Purchase this article

A Handful of Dust – John K. Grande

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: John K. Grande

[Fall 2017] Whitechapel Gallery, London June 7–September 3, 2017 By John K. Grande [Excerpt] Everything vanishes and yet it all remains, changed somehow, interpreted differently: ashes to ashes, dust to dust. A Handful of Dust is a show that has a mysterious point of departure that is as much about the ambiguities of art in […]

Thierry Gervais dir., The « Public » Life of Photographs – Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande et Julie-Ann Latulippe

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Book Reviews
Authors: Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande

[Fall 2017] The « Public » Life of Photographs RIC Books, Toronto, et MIT Press, Cambridge, 2016 Thierry Gervais (dir.) 275 pages Par Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande et Julie-Ann Latulippe (French only)   [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.]   Purchase this article

Masahisa Fukase, Ravens – Louis Perreault

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault

[Fall 2017] Ravens Masahisa Fukase Mack Books, Londres, 2017 (réédition) 148 pages, 100 photographies Par Louis Perreault (French only)   [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.]   Purchase this article

Claude Goulet, Les Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Interviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Lynne Cohen

[Fall 2017] Claude Goulet is the founder and director of Les Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie. This major event, now in its eighth edition, has become an essential destination, with its outdoor photographic installations spread over more than fourteen municipalities and its different thematic and pedagogical facets. The close, productive ties established among […]