[Winter 2025]

Thematic presentation
by Jacques Doyon

The change of scene evoked here is what happens when we leave a country, a territory, a familiar place, and find ourselves somewhere that forces us to adjust our habits and how we see things. Travelling across as big a country as ours, brushing up against survival conditions in the Canadian Arctic, capturing and shaping the traces of exile in the upheaval of things – these are ways of putting such a journey in perspective.

Geoffrey James
Canadian Photographs

In his “Canadian photographs,” Geoffrey James casts a rather paradoxical eye at the vast stretches of Canada. Cities and countrysides seem similarly torn among legacies of the past, transitional zones, and rather generic modern North American developments. We also see many people of various origins in these places, along with some traces of the initial Indigenous presence: all elements in a big remix.
with an essay by Kenneth Hayes

Louie Palu
Distant Early Warning

Louie Palu has repeatedly visited the Canadian Arctic, that part of the country whose strategic importance we know about but direct experience of which is beyond access to most of us, given its inhospitable climate. And yet, it is crisscrossed by military units responsible for surveillance missions related to the Distant Early Warning Line (known as the DEW Line).
with an essay by Jill Glessing

Jinyoung Kim
Here

Jinyoung Kim’s journey is one of immigration from South Korea to Canada. Although she rarely alludes to specific locales, it is the very idea of displacement, and the turmoil associated with such uprootings, that is the through line of her works. These private upheavals are conveyed in a dance of the objects and furnishings of daily life that have been abandoned, accumulated in storage, or tossed into the street, then been transfigured into sculptural installations.
with an essay by Gabrielle Sarthou

[ Complete issue, in print and digital version, available here: Ciel variable 128 – CHANGE OF SCENE ] [ Complete article in digital version available here: Thematic presentation: Change of Scene]