[Spring-Summer 2018]
The works brought together in this issue look back at significant phenomena and events in recent history to bring them back to memory and assess their current relevance. These are prolific works, with multiple iterations, that take forms as complex as their subjects: an entire field of artistic practices, pioneering works and pivotal moments, and the multiplication of cultural artefacts that are subject to intense ideological manipulations.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
The works brought together in this issue look back at events in relatively recent history that have reverberated to the present day. These are prolific works, with multiple iterations, embodied in artistic forms and processes that reflect the complexity of their subjects: the mobility of fragments of the Berlin Wall, the exhibition at the Christian […]
[Spring-Summer 2019] The works brought together in this issue look back at significant phenomena and events in recent history to bring them back to memory and assess their current relevance. These are prolific works, with multiple iterations, that take forms as complex as their subjects: an entire field of artistic practices, pioneering works and pivotal […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Portfolios
Authors: Jill Glessing | Artists: Blake Fitzpatrick, Vid Ingelevics
[Spring-Summer 2018] By Jill Glessing [Excerpt] Movement is elemental to existence. Since we made our slow crawl from sea to land we’ve been “on the road” seeking better environments. But another force – territorialism – counters that drive and stems our free flow with walls, great and small. Modernity brought increasing privatization of space through […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Charles Gagnon, Emmanuelle Léonard
[Spring-Summer 2018] By Pierre Dessureault [Excerpt] At Expo 67, a huge celebration of human progress and great festival of the image in all of its technological and expressive possibilities, the Christian Pavilion designed by Charles Gagnon offered a counterpoint to the event’s sea of triumphant optimism. This small pavilion, conceived by its designer as a […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Portfolios
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Carol Sawyer
[Spring-Summer 2018] By Ariane Noël de Tilly [Excerpt] For twenty years, Vancouver artist Carol Sawyer has constructed a speculative history around her character Natalie Brettschneider, through whom she has introduced the art practices of a number of previously overlooked artists who developed within alternative circles. Sawyer’s initiative, unique and imbued with humour, was born in […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Essays
Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Akram Zaatari
[Spring-Summer 2018] By Claudia Polledri [Excerpt] According to Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari, photography is expressed in many ways. This is the message of his most recent exhibition, Against Photography: An Annotated History of the Arab Image Foundation, a kaleidoscopic journey, through stories and images, into the archives of the Arab Image Foundation, an institution with […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Essays
Authors: Marie-Josée Jean | Artists: Jonathan Monk
[Spring-Summer 2018] By Marie J. Jean [Excerpt] Exhibition views have taken on an increasingly important role since museum specialists began featuring them in exhibitions. Originally placed under glass, following a documentary protocol introduced via museology, this form of documentation has gradually come to be displayed on walls, occasionally ascribed the status of artwork, eventually attaining […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Essays
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Raymonde April
[Spring-Summer 2018] By James D. Campbell [Excerpt] This round-robin exhibition featured powerful and evocative images of the original site of the recently abandoned Royal Victoria Hospital. Eleven Montreal artists were invited by the RBC Art and Heritage Centre of the McGill University Health Centre to tour the original site. It had been vacant since the […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala
[Spring-Summer 2018] National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Photography Institute Galleries, Ottawa Curated by Luce Lebart November 3, 2017 – April 2, 2018 By Johanna Mizgala [Excerpt] During a ten-year period that began in 1848, the rush to California in the mad hope of striking it rich was intertwined with the burgeoning ability to make a […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Geneviève Chevalier | Artists: Daniel Canty
[Spring-Summer 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal Du 29 août au 29 octobre 2017 By Geneviève Chevalier (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale here […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bill Viola
[Spring-Summer 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. DHC/Art, Montréal Du 25 octobre 2017 au 11 mars 2018 By Sylvain Campeau (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale here […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Natascha Niederstrass
[Spring-Summer 2018] Behind Closed Doors: Body of Evidence CIRCA, Montreal January 20–March 10, 2018 Le point aveugle Galerie Trois Points, Montreal September 9–October 28, 2017 By James D. Campbell [Excerpt] Over the last several years, at exhibitions in Montreal and elsewhere, Montreal-based photographic artist Natascha Niederstrass has earned a strong reputation for informing her work […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Janie Julien-Fort
[Spring-Summer 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Faire rouler la machine Galerie d’art photo Castiglione, Montréal Du 11 octobre au 11 novembre 2017 Les paysages éphémères Galerie d’art Outremont, Montréal Du 7 décembre 2017 au 7 janvier 2018 […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Masako Miyazaki
[Spring-Summer 2018] 木 – A tree Galerie d’Este, Montréal November 15–December 10, 2017 By John K. Grande [Excerpt] Masako Miyazaki’s photography show titled A Tree complements her poetry. Some of the images were made in forests, fields, and landscapes on Montreal’s south shore, and others were made in Japan. Whether in Japan or Quebec, the […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Malick Sidibé
[Spring-Summer 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Fondation Cartier, Paris Du 20 octobre 2017 au 25 février 2018 By Érika Nimis (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Robert Anderson | Artists: Kotama Bouabane
[Spring-Summer 2018] VU Photo, Quebec City October 27–December 3, 2017 By Robert Anderson [Excerpt] If you think the title of Laotian-born, Canadian-raised artist Kotama Bouabane’s recent show at VU, We’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slow, sounds suspiciously like a lyric from a bad pop song, you’d be right. The title is […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Mathieu Asselin
[Spring-Summer 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Monsanto, une enquête photographique Paris, Actes Sud, 2017, 147 pages By Louis Perreault (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale here […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Book Reviews
Authors: François Brunet
[Spring-Summer 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. L’affaire Capa Le procès d’une icône Paris, Textuel, « L’écriture photographique », 2017, 192 p., 62 ill. By François Brunet (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Essays
Authors: Louis Perreault
July 31, 2017 [originally published in CV109 in Spring 2018] — First, there was a fox. A few strollers noticed him, but he evaded a closer look by disappearing into the weeds of a post-industrial lot in Montreal East. I quickly took a liking to the animal and made him a sort of personal totem…