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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Denis Farley
[September 7, 2021] A period of staying home, barely leaving the cocoon, can be a fertile time. At least, experienced photographer Denis Farley seems to have taken full advantage. He talks about it in an interview on the platform Ffoto, after more than a year of COVID-19 restrictions. “I hadn’t much choice but to concentrate […]
Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Fanny Bieth | Artists: Denis Farley
June 14, 2023 [originally published in CV112 in Summer 2019] — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Portfolios
Authors: Daniel Fiset | Artists: Denis Farley
September 1, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — Espaces aériens marks a turning point in Farley’s aesthetic, developed since the 1980s, of working mainly in documentation of landscape and architecture. In this series, he gradually abandons horizontal composition and aims his lens upward, letting layers of clouds dictate the composition and perturb the unified reading…
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Portfolios
Artists: Alain Lefort, Denis Farley, Jocelyn Philibert
At first glance, the works presented here might seem to be simply about work on a motif. A more attentive look, however, shows that what is indicated here, in this focus on trees, or icebergs, or clouds, is the shaping of natural elements by human action on a landscape that has become an environment. Jocelyn […]
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Alain Lefort, Denis Farley, Jocelyn Philibert
Each series of images in this issue presents, in a way, work on a motif – a live view of the landscape, in the tradition of landscape painters. Capturing the infinite variations of trees, icebergs, or clouds under different conditions certainly testifies to an interest in nature, but perhaps even more in how it is […]
Ciel variable 82 – PUBLIC ART | Portfolios
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Adad Hannah, Alexandre Castonguay, Carlos & Jason Sanchez, Christophe Beauregard, Clara Gutsche, Denis Farley, Éric Tabuchi, Florian Böhm, Geneviève Cadieux, Isabelle Hayeur, Jessica Auer, Josée Pedneault, Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Max Wright, Neil Budzinski, Raymonde April, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Ron Terada, Suzanne Opton
[Summer 2009] by Jacques Doyon For several decades, contemporary art has been on display in the public spaces of Quebec’s urban areas, thanks to the creation of public art programs. Photography was long excluded from these programs, and even today it has limited visibility. Some initiatives have been undertaken in recent years, however, that stand […]
Ciel variable 76 - MAPPING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Denis Farley, Lynne Cohen
[Summer 2007] Parisian Laundry, Montréal January 12 – February 24, 2007 This welcome, timely, and provocative exhibition of photographic works by Lynne Cohen and Denis Farley shed considerable light on their respective oeuvres in a truly dialogical fashion. Lynne Cohen’s photographs have never looked more seductive and unsettling than they do in the present exhibition. […]
Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Portfolios
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Denis Farley
[Summer 2005] In his Irradiations series as in his earlier works, Denis Farley partakes in an ongoing investigation of the nature of photography as a self-conscious gesture. In a string of works produced following a site-specific group exhibition in the Canadian government’s once top-secret underground bunker, and now a decommissioned relic of the Cold War, […]
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Portfolios
Authors: Élisabeth Recurt | Artists: Denis Farley
[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.