Manon Labrecque, des [ré] animations — Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 122 – NIGHT ROUNDS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Manon Labrecque

[Winter 2023] Sylvain Campeau Maison des arts de Laval 01.05.2022 — 03.07.2022 [Excerpt] For some ten years, as foretold in her previous works, Manon Labrecque has been producing unique visual and animation devices, including ones in which the images apparently move, forming an utterly original cinégénie (a wonderful term coined by Dominique Païni). She did […]

Sylvain Campeau, Écrans motiles — Daniel Canty

Ciel variable 121 – WANDERINGS | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Daniel Canty

[Fall 2022] By Daniel Canty Écrans motiles Montréal, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2021, 280 p. [Excerpt] “Motility.” That’s the idea that Sylvain Campeau has chosen to summon for the title of his most recent book, Écrans motiles. If, like me, you’re wondering about the term, it is borrowed from the life sciences, in […]

A Trillion Sunsets. A Century of Image Overload — Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 121 – WANDERINGS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau

[Fall 2022] By Sylvain Campeau International Center of Photography, New York 28.01.2022 — 2.05.2022 [Excerpt] With its very title, A Trillion Sunsets: A Century of Image Overload announces its subject and its attitude. Looking at the publicity for the show, we would note that this is a theme very much of our times – maybe […]

Jean Gagnon, Vidéocaméléon — Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 120 - FIGURES OF AFFIRMATION | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Jean Gagnon

[Summer 2022] By Sylvain Campeau Vidéocaméléon. Chroniques de l’art vidéo au Québec Montréal, Éditions Somme toute, 2021, 239 p. [Excerpt] Let’s start by saying it straight out, without splitting hairs: this book will be highly useful to everyone interested in the visual arts in Canada, and particularly in the emergence of video art in Quebec. […]

Geneviève Chevalier, Mirement/Towering : La Ménagerie et L’Herbier — Sylvain Campeau, Arranging the Living

Ciel variable 119 - AGAINST NATURE | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Geneviève Chevalier

[Winter 2022] By Sylvain Campeau [Excerpt] Over the last few years, artist Geneviève Chevalier has become interested in places and methods of classification used in the natural sciences to inventory and analyze flora and fauna. Menageries were, in a way, the ancestors of museums. They contained both collections and live exotic animals, but as an […]

Chuck Samuels, Becoming Photography — Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 118 - EXHIBITING PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Chuck Samuels

[Fall 2021] Expression, centre d’exposition de Saint­-Hyacinthe 27.02.2021 — 25.04.2021 Plein sud, centre d’exposition en art actuel à Longueuil 13.03.2021 — 24.04.2021 By Sylvain Campeau [Excerpt] A project deployed in two venues and one monograph, Becoming Photography brings together corpuses produced between 1991 and 2020. At Plein sud are series that have been exhibited before, […]

Chih-Chien Wang. A Gift of Images — Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 117 - SHIFTED | Essays
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Chih-Chien Wang

[Summer 2021] Par Sylvain Campeau [Excerpt] Characteristic of Chih-Chien Wang’s art practice is his intertwined use of photography and videography, so it might seem incongruous to approach his work from the angle of the still life. Nevertheless, allusions to this genre constantly arise in his work, although analysts and critics have never thought to make […]

Bertrand Carrière — Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 116 — LANDSCAPES AS MIRRORS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

[Winter 2021] This article was originally published in French only. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Dans les années – Photographies 1996–2019 Galerie d’art Antoine-Sirois de l’Université de Sherbrooke Du 8 septembre au 17 octobre 2020 By Sylvain Campeau (En français seulement)   See the magazine for […]

Charles-Frédérick Ouellet, The Fur Trade – Sylvain Campeau

Documentary photography
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Charles-Frédérick Ouellet

[October 27, 2020] By Sylvain Campeau The title of a photographic series is the first contact that we have with it. It therefore, inevitably, determines what we will think of the photographs, and what we will find in them. This relationship, though primordial, often goes unnoticed. Paradoxically, that means that the title has played its […]

Charles-Frédérick Ouellet

Jocelyn Philibert — Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 115 - THE MARCH OF THE WORLD | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Jocelyn Philibert

[Summer 2020] This article was originally published in French only. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Dimension Lumière EXPRESSION. Centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe Du 9 novembre 2019 au 26 janvier 2020 Par Sylvain Campeau (En Français seulement)   See the magazine for the complete article and more […]

Adam Basanta – Sylvain Campeau

Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Adam Basanta

November 26, 2019 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Adam Basanta

Velibor Božović, In seeing, there is no right no wrong — Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Velibor Božović

[Summer 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Patrick Mikhail, Montréal Du 5 janvier au 16 février 2019 By Sylvain Campeau (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. Available here […]

Bertrand Carrière, Tout ceci est impossible — Sylvain Campeau, Time is Impossible

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

[Summer 2019] By Sylvain Campeau [Excerpt] Bertrand Carrière has had a long relationship with the film world. Before establishing himself as an artist, he took many pictures as a soundstage photographer. But such images must not be seen solely as the result of a professional practice that imposed frameworks and constraints on the creation of […]

Martin Désilets, Matière noire / L’index – Sylvain Campeau

Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Martin Désilets

April 3, 2019 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Martin Désilets

Andreas Gursky – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Andreas Gursky

[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Richard Mosse, The Castle – Sylvain Campeau, Human Traces

Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Richard Mosse

January 26, 2022 [originally published in CV110 in Fall 2018 ] — As he had first done in 2011 and 2013 for Infra and The Enclave, Mosse uses a military tracking technology. In those series, it was an infrared film camera capable of detecting human presences in dense foliage…

Jacynthe Carrier, Paysage : Faire le jour – Sylvain Campeau

Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Jacynthe Carrier

September 10, 2018 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Jacynthe Carrier

Myriam Yates, Gander Islands – Sylvain Campeau

Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Myriam Yates

15 mai 2018 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Myriam Yates

Bill Viola – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bill Viola

September 28, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Chih-Chien Wang – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Chih-Chien Wang

April 11, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Sara A. Tremblay et Léna Mill-Reuillard – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Léna Mill-Reuillard, Sara A. Tremblay

October 27, 2020 [originally published in French only in CV107 in Fall 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Joan Fontcuberta, Trauma – Sylvain Campeau, Autopsy of a Disappearance

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Joan Fontcuberta

January 11, 2021 [originally published in CV107 in Fall 2017] — In his work, Joan Fontcuberta explores the effects of the real and the capacity for truth generated by the technological image, in order to denounce the authoritarian discourses regarding information and knowledge. His other subjects include nature and the functions of the image in digital culture.

Manon Labrecque – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Manon Labrecque

May 26, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Jacynthe Carrier – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Jacynthe Carrier

June 18, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

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.

Marie-Claire Blais et Pascal Grandmaison – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Marie-Claire Blais, Pascal Grandmaison

February 5, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Walid Raad – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Walid Raad

February 18, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Bertrand Carrière, Le capteur – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

November 11, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Thomas Kneubühler – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Thomas Kneubühler

December 9, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Beam me up, Scotty! The Photographs Teleported from Google Street View – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Essays
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Doug Rickard, Jon Rafman, Michael Wolf, Mishka Henner

August 5, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — It has been a few years now since artists discovered that they could put Google Street View to artistic and critical use. The best-known case is no doubt Jon Rafman, who is pursuing – inexorably, I might be tempted to say – his 9-eyes project, for which he shamelessly pillages the Internet image bank that contains pictures taken by directional cameras affixed to Google Street View (GSV) cars…