Discover issue 129 | From Continent to Continent
The feature section of this issue brings together the portfolios of Mallory Lowe Mpoka, Fatine-Violette Sabiri and Ed Pien.
Biennals & Co. | Art Souterrain
For its 17th edition, the Art Souterrain festival has explored our habitats — whether real or mental, intimate or environmental. With photography featured extensively, the festival paints a global portrait that is not always positive but remains tinged with hope. Read here what we thought about it.
Archives | Ciel variable 115
We’re expanding our archives! The complete issue 115 of Ciel variable, LA MARCHE DU MONDE | THE MARCH OF THE WORLD, originally published in summer 2020, available online. All articles from the issue are now freely accessible exclusively.
The Photobook | Minus 30, by Angela Boehm
An all-white horizon, evoking the idea of a harsh, majestic Canadian winter, has been captured from a thousand angles by Angela Boehm’s lens. Surprising and audacious, Minus 30 brings together a collection of images from her native Saskatchewan, a landscape she has traversed almost like a process of mourning. Ewa Monika Zebrowski reviews it here.
The Photobook | Kiss Landing, by Fatine-Violette Sabiri
Fatine-Violette Sabiri is constantly travelling back and forth between Casablanca and Montreal, and Kiss Landing reveals the ties that bind her to both cities. Her invariable soft landings give rise to a narrative with no breaks or dissonance. Our contributor Fanny Bieth reviews the book here.
Artists’ Projects | Lavender Promenade: Montreal’s Gay Village
A photographer of colours, Robert Walker here delves into the rainbow of hues – including lavender – emblematic of the LGBTQ community’s aesthetic. A stroll in the Village, with glimpses of the Pride Parade, in the colours of a fully assumed identity. Discover it here.
Documentary Photography | Cage Call
Mines – their depth and operations – are at the heart of Louie Palu’s emblematic series Cage Call, created between 1991 and 2003. The Image Centre recovered Palu’s photographs from oblivion for an exhibition, reviewed here by Siobhan Angus.
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Janick Burn — Marie-Ève Leclerc-Parker
[Winter 2020] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Plein sud, Longueuil Du 18 mai au 22 juin 2019 Par Marie-Ève Leclerc-Parker (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale throughout Canada until June 12, 2020, and online through our boutique.] Purchase this issue
Rebecca Belmore — Sophie Guignard
[Winter 2020] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Braver le monumental Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal Commissaire : Wanda Nanibush Du 20 juin au 6 octobre 2019 Par Sophie Guignard (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale throughout Canada until June 12, 2020, and online through our boutique.] Purchase […]
Dakar, From the Studio to the Sidewalk — Érika Nimis
[Winter 2020] Par Erika Nimis Dakar, a cosmopolitan capital city and crossroads on the Atlantic coast, open to all creative currents, has grown under the gaze of its photographers. An independent field of professional photography emerged in the 1990s, and the institution of the Mois de la Photo has contributed to legitimizing an increasingly engaged scene turned to creativity1 and permeable to international influences. In this essay on the photography scene in Dakar, I build […]
Geneviève Cadieux, Vast Still Tender: Ghost Ranch — Laurie Milner
[Winter 2020] Par Laurie Milner Is it the greyness of the April afternoon that makes the Rene Blouin Gallery seem so luminous as I enter Geneviève Cadieux’s exhibition Ghost Ranch?1 I had heard the buzz among artists and colleagues that this was a show to be seen – a virtuoso production by an august Montreal artist – and I have come to do just that: to observe the concrete facts of the work, apprehend the […]
Stephen Gill, Gill and the Birds: A Photographic Code of Ethics — Alexis Desgagnés
[Winter 2020] Par Alexis Desgagnés On the threshold of my teenage years, my greatest passion was to observe birds. I spent countless hours, binoculars hung around my neck, prowling slowly, silently, through woods and meadows, looking out for a rare gem! When I was thirteen, a camera, a gift from my stepmother, replaced the binoculars, gradually turning my destiny from ornithology toward art. I still remember how surprised I was at my first photographs – […]
Mélissa Pilon, Foules — Claudia Polledri, What Is a Crowd? A New Approach to the Photojournalistic Image
[Winter 2020] By Claudia Polledri What is a crowd, and how can a photograph teach us about this protagonist of twentieth-century history? In her photobook Foules, Mélissa Pilon underlines the visual complexity of crowds as living organisms, casting an original gaze upon them. In this work, defined as photojournalism, Pilon aims to offer a new approach to the photojournalistic image, as she has arranged more than 130 black-and-white pictures into diptychs. It is an ambitious […]
Gisele Amantea, Aleppo, Syria, December 17, 2016 — An interview by Jacques Doyon
[Winter 2020] An interview by Jacques Doyon Jacques Doyon: What is the origin of the work Aleppo, Syria December 17, 2016? How did the idea emerge? Why Syria? And what prompted you to work from an existing image of a disaster? Gisele Amantea: I was invited by curator Emily Falvey to participate in the group exhibition Here Be Dragons. The theme of the exhibition, which took place at Carleton University Art Gallery in Ottawa in […]
Alain Paiement, Masses / Particules — Alain Paiement, Crowds
[Winter 2020] Demonstrations. From Occupy Wall Street to Extinction Rebellion actions, popular resistance demonstrations have become an integral part of international news over the last decade. We are almost accustomed to seeing, over and over, spectacular images of uprisings against dictators, altercations among citizens, identity-related confrontations, movements of crowds in war and in desperate migrations. The dynamic of these crowds varies considerably, from pacifist marches to violent riots. Such waves of movements have punctuated the […]
Dominique Blain, Déplacements — Louise Déry, A Painful Beauty
[Winter 2020] By Louise Déry As Dominique Blain’s exhibition Déplacements was being presented in Paris,<sup>1</sup> Venice was suffering a flood so terrible that we were once again anguished about the possibility of seeing this incomparable treasure of world heritage disappear. Not so long ago, it was Notre-Dame de Paris that was severely damaged, this time by fire, before the incredulous eyes of thousands of witnesses gathered on the bridges, piers, and neighbouring streets and those […]
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