Emmanuelle Léonard – Ciel variable Magazine

Emmanuelle Léonard, Black Out : Les livreurs / The Deliverers — Gabrielle Sarthou, Those Who Wait for Us

Ciel variable 122 – NIGHT ROUNDS | Portfolios
Authors: Gabrielle Sarthou | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard

[Winter 2023] Those Who Wait for Us By Gabrielle Sarthou [Excerpt] Going from place to place in the city. The sidewalk unfurls under our feet. The stores scroll by, one after another. Sometimes, we no longer notice the neon signs or the people we pass. The faces fade. We classify, we consider, then we forget. […]

Night Rounds

Ciel variable 122 – NIGHT ROUNDS | Portfolios
Artists: Éliane Excoffier, Emmanuelle Léonard

[Winter 2023] No matter what the adage says, all cats are not grey in the dark. Night-time brings out a throng of personalities and countless activities. In nature, that’s when the wild animals finally take over. ..

Another World

Ciel variable 122 – NIGHT ROUNDS | Editorial
Authors: Jérôme Delgado | Artists: Éliane Excoffier, Emmanuelle Léonard

[Winter 2023] By Jérôme Delgado. No matter what the adage says, all cats are not grey in the dark. Night-time brings out a throng of personalities, countless activities, and – without a shadow of a doubt – a rich colour palette.

Charles Gagnon | Emmanuelle Léonard, Le huitième jour – Pierre Dessureault, Expo 67: The Christian Pavilion and Le huitième jour

Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Charles Gagnon, Emmanuelle Léonard

November 17, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — 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….

Mutations – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard, Isabelle Hayeur, Sébastien Cliche

March 31, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

BNLMTL 2014 : L’avenir (looking forward) – Louis Cummins, Geopolitics and Institutional Strategies

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Essays
Authors: Louis Cummins | Artists: Abbas Akhavan, Emmanuelle Léonard, Étienne Tremblay-Tardif, Hito Steyerl, Jillian Mayer, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Lawrence Weiner, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ursula Biemann

May 15, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — By including artists such as Lawrence Weiner and Krzysztof Wodiczko, two pioneers of conceptual art who, in the late 1960s, combined art and social activism, the curators of the Biennale de Montréal 2014 clearly staked out their position…

Emmanuelle Léonard, Homicide, Détenu Vs Détenu, Archives Du Palais De Justice De La Ville De Québec – Gaëlle Morel, Opening Up Forensic Photography

Ciel variable 93 – FORENSICS | Portfolios
Authors: Gaëlle Morel | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard

December 20, 2017 [originally published in CV93 in Winter 2013] — After devoting a number of projects to the world of work, Montreal photographer and videographer Emmanuelle Léonard investigates the notions of visual traces and information in her most recent works…

Emmanuelle Léonard, Juste une image – Nicolas Mavrikakis

Ciel variable 90 – COLLABORATIONS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Nicolas Mavrikakis | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard

May 3, 2017 [originally published in French in CV90 in Winter 2012] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Emmanuelle Léonard, L’Annonciation – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 80 - IMAGE BANKS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard

[Fall 2008] Donald Browne Galery, Montreal April 19–May 24, 2008 In her new exhibition at Galerie Donald Browne, Emmanuel Léonard made her consummately subversive voice heard from the outset. Her singular art of juxtaposition, theatricality, gathered “evidence,” and narrative layering once again adumbrated an environmental volume that radically exceeded the sum of its parts. The […]

Emmanuelle Léonard, Resguárdeme – André-Louis Paré, Emmanuelle Léonard : une histoire de l’œil

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Portfolios
Authors: André-Louis Paré | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard, Sean Reuthler

[Spring 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The author bases himself on Michel Foucault’s analysis of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon to examine the works of Emmanuelle Léonard – more specifically, the video installation Guardia, resguárdeme (Guard, protect me), […]

Territoires urbains – Serge Bérard

Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Serge Bérard | Artists: Christian Barré, Emmanuelle Léonard, Isabelle Hayeur, Martin Désilets, Myriam Yates, Pavel Pavlov

[Winter 2005-2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée d’art contemporain Montréal 7 octobre 2005 au 8 janvier 2006

Emmanuelle Léonard : Un livre de photographies – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard

[Fall 2005] Emmanuelle Léonard : Un livre de photographies Montréal, Occurrence 2005 Emmanuelle Léonard has exhibited a growing body of work since 1996, steadily evolving into a contemporary photographer whose next project is eagerly anticipated. Her complex images not only explore the theoretical terrain between photographer, subject, and viewer, but also serve to disentangle pervasively […]

Emmanuelle Léonard, Les travailleurs – Anite de Carvalho

Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Anite de Carvalho | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard

[Summer 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Dans le cadre de l’exposition La vie en temps réel. Mode ralenti. Espace Vox, du 22 mars au 26 mai 2002.

Terrains vagues / Unspecified, Œuvres de Geoffrey James, Alain Lefort, Emmanuelle Léonard et Suzanne Paquet – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alain Lefort, Emmanuelle Léonard, Geoffrey James

[Spring 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Textes de Lise Lamarche et Guy Mercier Éditions J’ai vu, collection L’opposite, Québec, 2000, 112 p. (107 ill. n. et bl.)