Christos Dikeakos – Ciel variable Magazine

Christos Dikeakos, The Collectors – Karen Henry, Picturing West Coast Collections

Ciel variable 131 – COLLECTING | Portfolios
Authors: Karen Henry | Artists: Christos Dikeakos

Presented as a collectors’ collection, Christos Dikeakos’s portrait series reflects the richness and diversity of people who are engaged in and fervent about amassing works for the pleasure of living with them. The images, varied and sumptuous, immerse us in worlds manifestly shaped by passion. In her essay, Karen Henry shows how Dikeakos draws on an ecosystem that serves art, its preservation and its sharing.

Thematic presentation: Collecting

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Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Christos Dikeakos, Michel Campeau, Sara Knelman

[Winter 2026] Collecting by Jacques Doyon Portraits of British Columbian collectors of contemporary and Indigenous art, a collection of archival images that pays tribute to gestures and rituals in the darkroom, and a collection of a century’s worth of vernacular photographs of women reading – all offer fascinating stories that emerge from images accumulated by […]

Editorial: A Passion for Images

Ciel variable 131 – COLLECTING | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Christos Dikeakos, Michel Campeau, Sara Knelman

[Winter 2026] A Passion for Images by Jacques Doyon Each of the series presented in this issue bespeaks a passion for images. Assembled by artists and a writer – all of whom are both collectors, archivists, and documentarians – are portraits of British Columbian collectors of contemporary and Indigenous art, archival images that pay tribute […]