Michael Snow, du lac Clair à La région centrale en passant par le langage – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable - Intimacies | Readings
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Michael Snow

Buy the issue → [Fall 2026] TITRE par AUTEUR [EXCERPT] extrait 2-3 paragraphes […] [ Complete issue, in print and digital version, available here: Ciel variable 133 – INTIMACIES ] [ Complete article in digital version available here : [TITRE DE L’ARTICLE] Biographie de l’artiste Biographie de l’auteur

Serge Clément et Alexis Desgagnés, Métamorphose – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 132 - TABLEAUX | Readings
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alexis Desgagnés, Serge Clément

“Unique” despite a relatively familiar process—a double-sided book meant to be consulted from either end—Métamorphose brings together photographer Serge Clément and poet Alexis Desgagnés. Admiring their “osmosis,” Sylvain Campeau sees in their creative exchange a shared “density,” moving between a “concrete-and-glass jungle” and the figure of the bird within an “overcrowding of emotions.” The publication, he writes, is best appreciated when experienced “by travel through it following paths that veer off.”

Julianknxx, Chorus in Rememory of Flight – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 131 – COLLECTING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Julianknxx

The exhibition circulated by London’s Barbican Centre and seen by Sylvain Campeau in Lisbon reflected Julianknxx’s commitment to the African diaspora in Europe. Originally from Sierra Leone, the England-based artist explored, most notably in a monumental three-screen video, the presence of Black bodies in cities where racism remains latent. The result, described by the critic as “astounding,” asserted that the renewal of this population’s identity enriches society.

MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain – Sylvain Campeau

Authors: Sylvain Campeau

Under the title “In Praise of the Missing Image,” MOMENTA Biennale de l’image explores silenced and forgotten narratives. In his overview of the event, Sylvain Campeau observes the powerful presence of the image, which joins forces with other forms of expression to affirm singular worlds. Read it here.

Richard Mosse, Broken Spectre – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 128 – CHANGE OF SCENE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Richard Mosse

Richard Mosse is known for his use of technologies originally designed for non-artistic purposes. For his project in the Amazon, he used a device that reproduces the thermal signature of the human body, aiming this time to capture natural ecosystems. While he imitates companies seeking to exploit land, the Irish artist does so in order to denounce them.

Laurence Hervieux-Gosselin, Lune de craie — Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 126 – TRAJECTORIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Laurence Hervieux-Gosselin

[Summer 2024] par Sylvain Campeau [EXCERPT] As I was beginning to write this review of Laurence Hervieux-Gosselin’s exhibition, the fact that she had won the Prix Lynne Cohen in 2021 suddenly came to mind. Beyond the importance and prestige attached to this award, in this case – more than in others – there seem to […]

Voyagements, parcours, passages et dérives des images, de Richard Baillargeon – Sylvain Campeau

The Photobook
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Richard Baillargeon

[April 10, 2024] By Sylvain Campeau. Richard Baillargeon has come out with a new book. Voyagements, parcours, passages et dérives des images covers a creative period encompassing everything he has produced over a four-decade career. In these pages we find, in addition to Baillargeon’s writings produced for the occasion, essays by the thinkers and guides Chantal Boulanger and Guy Mercier and an introduction by Suzanne Paquet…

Richard Baillargeon

Alain Paiement, Cosmic Blues — Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 124 – SEEING THROUGH IMAGES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alain Paiement

[Fall 2023] By Sylvain Campeau [Excerpt] Galerie Hugues Charbonneau Montréal 15.03.2023 — 23.04.2023 Theodor Adorno wondered whether it was still possible to write poetry after the horrors of Auschwitz. The same question can no doubt be asked today, of the entire field of art, as we wait uneasily to find out how climate change will […]

Adad Hannah, Expositions récentes — Posing Bodies and Works, Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 124 – SEEING THROUGH IMAGES | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Adad Hannah

[Fall 2023] Posing Bodies and Works Sylvain Campeau [Excerpt] At Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain,1 Adad Hannah recently presented a panorama combining new works, in the first gallery, with others still underway, in the second gallery. Hence the logic of grouping them under the title Recent Exposures. There is in allusion here to one of Hannah’s […]

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, Readings
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, Readings
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

Discover Geneviève Chevalier’s Mirement/Towering: The Menagerie and the Herbarium, with Sylvain Campeau’s essay exploring photography, natural history, colonialism, and the living world.

Chuck Samuels, Becoming Photography — Sylvain Campeau

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

Chuck Samuels has been delving into the mise en abîme of photography, and the photographic portrait, since 1991. Brought together under the title Becoming Photography in exhibitions in two venues, these different bodies of work arise from two paradigms, in Sylvain Campeau’s view: the now-settled issue of the originality of an artwork and the current universe of “unending ramifications.” Campeau acknowledges that the evolution of Samuels’s practice, between appropriation of the reputation of “illustrious forebears” and contestation of the “hierarchy of people and genres,” fits within the “dissolution of barriers among media,” which are now all similar, all digital. “This desire to become the photograph,” he notes, “was deployed at the very moment when it could provoke only out-and-out rejection.”

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

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

In this essay, Sylvain Campeau explores a genre rarely discussed and yet essential to Chih-Chien Wang’s work: the still life – and, in particular, the theme of food. Although fruits and vegetables inhabit Wang’s photographs and videos, that’s not the whole story. Turning to theoretical reflections such as that of Anne Cauquelin and her “table gifts,” Campeau regards the still life as “a fundamental part of a gift, and this is even more obvious in Wang’s work.” The idea of the gift, of a possible “gathering of guests,” leads Campeau to dwell on the artist’s works in which sharing takes the form of speaking, of “confessions.” “Through the exchange and the giving of human beings’ formative stories, there is a question of evading what in them determines us and defines us too closely,” he suggests.

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)     Buy the issue […]

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)   Acheter ce numéro

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

June 28, 2023 — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

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

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

March 8, 2022 [originally published in CV112 in Summer 2019] — By Sylvain Campeau. 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 images…

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, Readings
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…

Gwenaël Bélanger, Dépeindre – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Gwenaël Bélanger

February 4, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Bettina Hoffmann, Drain – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bettina Hoffmann

Novembre 28, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Henri Venne, Somewhere in Between – Sylvain Campeau, Painting Indebted to Photography

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Henri Venne

January 14, 2019 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — Henri Venne is a painter. It is painted matter that interests him. It is in this medium that he was educated, and it is also how he defines himself. Henri Venne is also a photographer, as the works that emerge from his creative process are photographs. He is also interested in how images are imbued with visual effects, places for various reflections…

Lorraine Gilbert, Paysages canadiens 1988-2013 – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Lorraine Gilbert

October 1, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Thomas Demand, Animations – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 96 – PERFORMING FOR THE IMAGE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Thomas Demand

June 27, 2018 [originally published in CV96 in Winter 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Gabriel Coutu-Dumont, The Way of the Willows – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 96 – PERFORMING FOR THE IMAGE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Gabriel Coutu-Dumont

August 6, 2018 [originally published in French in CV96 in Winter 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Alain Laframboise, Figures – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alain Laframboise

February 26, 2018 [originally published in French in CV94 in Spring 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Nicolas Baier, Autoportrait – Sylvain Campeau, Transiting through Photography

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Nicolas Baier

March 26, 2018 [originally published in CV94 in Spring 2013] — To judge by his works, Nicolas Baier has never been anything but a photographer, as these works are replete with all the potentialities, components, and mechanisms of the medium. This is so even when the works he creates are not photographic…

Martin Désilets, Entre des fragments de choses, d’espace et de temps – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 92 – TRUE NORTH | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Martin Désilets

September 13, 2017 [originally published in French in CV92 in Fall 2012] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Lynne Marsh, Stage Backstage – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 91 – OUR WORLD | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Lynne Marsh

June 21, 2017 [originally published in French in CV91 in Spring 2012] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Edward Burtynsky, Oil – Sylvain Campeau, Between the Perceptible and the Ethical

Ciel variable 91 – OUR WORLD | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Edward Burtynsky

August 28, 2017 [originally published in CV91 in Spring 2012] — The images are supreme. Of rather respectable dimensions – when they are not downright immense – and brightly coloured, they please us, dazzle us, force us to admire them. They show landscapes, openings into our immediate environment. But this environment does not have the bucolic accents of yore, for it is increasingly occupied by signs of exploitation of natural resources. Its wild – truly wild – territories are rarer and rarer…

Patrick Dionne et Miki Gingras, Mémoire – Sylvain Campeau, Self-document and Rediscovered Sociability

Ciel variable 90 – COLLABORATIONS | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Miki Gingras, Patrick Dionne

May 29, 2017 [originally published in CV90 in Winter 2012] — For a number of years, Patrick Dionne and Miki Gingras have been working on large-scale photographic projects that encourage artistic engagement in society. In 2002, to better fulfil this mission, they founded Diasol, a charitable organization the objective of which is to use art photography as a means of intervention with marginalized people and young people and adults with difficulties with school or family, in psychological distress, or in the process of social reintegration.

Claude-Philippe Benoit, Société de ville – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 89 - PLACES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Claude-Philippe Benoît

February 28, 2017 [originally published in French in CV89 in Fall 2011] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Johanne Biffi, Route 389 – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 87 – SERIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Johanne Biffi

September 20, 2016 [originally published in French only in Winter 2011] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Yan Giguère, Attractions – Sylvain Campeau, Gravity and Tropism

Ciel variable 87 – SERIES | Interviews, Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Yan Giguère

October 18, 2016 [originally published in Winter 2011] — Yan Giguère has been a well-known figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene since the mid-1990s. His most recent photographic works were in solo exhibitions at Galerie Optica in 2009, Centre VU in 2008 and 2002, and Galerie B-312 in 2002. His pieces, which are in a number of collections, highlight the poetry of the everyday in series with strong narrative potential arranged on the walls of the exhibition space.

William Eggleston, Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 86 - PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: William Eggleston

June 14, 2015 [originally published in French only Fall 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Isabelle Hayeur, L’envers du décor – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur

April 14, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Yan Giguère, Attractions – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Yan Giguère

[Spring 2010] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Optica, Montréal Du 12 septembre au 17 octobre 2009

Form: Experimentation and Transformation – Sylvain Campeau

Essays
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alain Paiement, Bertrand Carrière, Bill Vazan, Isabelle Hayeur, Luc Courchesne, Nicolas Baier, Raymonde April

October 15, 2015 [originally published on March 31, 2010] — Looking back over twenty years and trying to retrace the path of experiments with images, we start in the early 1990s, when a couple of newcomers, Alain Paiement and Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, were already starting to turn heads. In an essay published in 1992, Denis Lessard tried to show what these artists owed to the heritage of Pierre Boogaerts, Bill Vazan, and Serge Tousignant.¹ He also mentioned the work, then new, of Raymonde April, Lucie Lefebvre, and Denis Farley. This effort at historical perspective was out of place at the time, when the lion’s share of attention in the critical environment was being paid to the rebirth of installation art and the manner in which photography and, soon, the photographic would be inserted into it.

Alain Paiement, Bertrand Carrière, Bill Vazan, Isabelle Hayeur, Luc Courchesne, Nicolas Baier, Raymonde April

Bertrand Carrière et Serge Clément, Chemin faisant – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière, Serge Clément

[Fall 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Simon Blais, Montréal Du 10 juin au 1er août 2009

Thomas Kneubühler, Electric Mountains – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Thomas Kneubühler

[Fall 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Projex-Mtl Galerie, Montréal Du 30 avril au 20 juin 2009

Carlos et Jason Sanchez, Œuvres choisies (2002-2007) – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 82 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Carlos & Jason Sanchez

[Summer 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Maison des arts de Laval Du 27 septembre au 24 novembre 2008 Commissaire : Madeleine Therrien

Reno Salvail, Les rivières de feu – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 82 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Reno Salvail

[Summer 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre VU Du 10 octobre au 9 novembre 2008

6* Émissaires, Québec réinventée par la photographie actuelle – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 81 - MADE IN CHINA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur, Ivan Binet, Mathieu Beauséjour, Patrick Altman

[Spring 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre VU, Québec 19 juin au 10 août 2008

Yang li, Uprooted – Sylvain Campeau, Art and Submersion, Memories of a Chinese Dream

Ciel variable 81 - MADE IN CHINA | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Yang Yi

[Spring 2009] In 2009, the Three Gorges Dam will have flooded hundreds of square kilometres in central China. Chinese artist Yang Yi will see his hometown, Kaixian, being submerged during the last phase of the project. Employing mastery of both photography and digital techniques, Yi shows us ghost towns engulfed by water whose inhabitants, fitted out […]

Richard Baillargeon, Les marques de l’exsangue

Ciel variable 80 - IMAGE BANKS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Richard Baillargeon

[Fall 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Expression, St-Hyacinthe 15 mars au 27 avril 2008 Commissaire : Lisanne Nadeau

Publications J’ai VU, Parutions récentes – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sylvain Campeau

[Summer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Alain Laframboise, Parcours – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alain Laframboise

[Summer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Le Mois de la photo à Montréal – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau

[Spring 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Explorations narratives, Montréal 6 septembre – 21 octobre 2007

Yan Giguère, Choisir – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Yan Giguère

[Fall 2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Occurrence, espace d’art et d’essai contemporains, du 17 mars au 21 avril 2007

Michel Lamothe – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 76 - MAPPING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Michel Lamothe

[Summer 2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Occurrence, Montréal du 20 janvier au 3 mars 2007

Alain Declercq, Embedded versus Wildcat – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 75 - MUTATIONS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alain Declercq

[Fall 2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre Vox, Montréal du 9 septembre au 21 octobre 2006

Toni Hafkenschied, HO – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 74 - LOGOS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Toni Hafkenschied

[Winter 2006-2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre VU, Québec du 5 mai au 4 juin 2006

Mark Ruwedel, Written on the Land – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Mark Ruwedel

[Fall 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée de Joliette du 12 février au 16 avril 2006

Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Prélèvements – Sylvain Campeau, Conduction lumineuse du vivant

Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Marie-Jeanne Musiol

[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. Abstract Campeau examines the scope and consequences of what seems to be implied by the possibility that objects can produce their own visible radiation, thereby challenging the very notion of photographic […]

Michel de Broin et Ève K. Tremblay – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Eve K. Tremblay, Michel de Broin

[Summer 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Honeymoons Pierre-François Ouellette Art contemporain, Du 6 novembre au 18 décembre 2004

Autoportraits dans la photographie canadienne contemporaine – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sylvain Campeau

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Autoportraits dans la photographie canadienne contemporaine Éditions J’ai Vu, collection L’opposite, Québec, 2004, 111 p.

Roberto Pellegrinuzzi: Foliacées – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Roberto Pellegrinuzzi

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Thérèse Dion Art contemporain, Montréal du 3 septembre au 2 octobre 2004

Alexandre Castonguay, Digitale – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alexandre Castonguay

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Pierre-François Ouellette Art contemporain, Montréal du 17 juin au 11 septembre 2004

Sadko Hadzihasanovic: El Comandante – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Sadko Hadzihasanovic

[Fall 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre VU, Québec du 2 avril au 2 mai 2004

Bertrand Carrière, Signes de jour – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

[Spring 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Simon Blais du 4 septembre au 5 octobre 2002

Patrick Coutu, Œuvres spatiales – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Patrick Coutu

[Fall 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée du Québec du 6 juin au 13 octobre 2002

Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Corps de lumière / Bodies of Light – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Marie-Jeanne Musiol

[Spring 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Axe Néo-7 art contemporain, Hull, 2002 89 p. (41 ill. n. et b.)

Javier Vallhonrat, Obras, 1995-2001 – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Javier Vallhonrat

[Winter 2001-2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Édition Cultural Rioja, La Rioja, 2001 110 p. (46 ill. coul., 19 ill. n. et bl.)

Joan Fontcuberta, Volte-face. À l’envers de la science, les leçons de l’histoire – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Joan Fontcuberta

[Fall 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Le Cairn, Centre d’art, et les Éditions Images en manœuvres Digne et Marseille, 2000, 117 p.

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

Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Book Reviews, Readings
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.)

Isabelle Hayeur, Les Paysages incertains – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur

[Spring 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Verticale Du 18 avril au 27 mai 2001

Fiction ou d’autres histoires de la photographie – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sylvain Campeau

[Winter 2000-2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Éditions Dazibao, Collection les essais Montréal, 2000, 206 p. (français/anglais)

André Martin, Mes modèles. Autoportraits – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: André Martin

[Summer 2000] 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 de Montréal du 11 mai au 13 août 2000

Robert ParkeHarrison – Sylvain Campeau, Écophilie

Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Robert ParkeHarrison

[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Paradoxical: This is how Sylvain Campeau defines the works of Robert ParkeHarrison. It is a paradox of a Resurrection that cannot help but take part in the Apocalypse; the paradox […]

Assujettir – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Essays
Authors: Sylvain Campeau

[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Leo Divendal – Sylvain Campeau, Terezin. Théâtres d’ombres

Ciel variable 45 - (OFF CAMERA) | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Leo Divendal

[Winter 1998-1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary As a photographer, Leo Divendal is known for his recapturing of archival images, without added legend. In the series presented here, he accumulates portraits, park scenes, children’s games – all […]

Eileen Leier – Sylvain Campeau, Sur la piste de la ruée vers l’or

Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Eileen Leir

[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Eileen Leier’s Sur la piste de la ruée vers l’or (On the gold-rush route) is a evidentiary installation that deals with the presence of remains and of photography in various […]

Anne-Marie Zeppetelli, Bodies and Traces – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 38 - DESIRE | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Anne-Marie Zeppetelli

[Spring 1997] The self-portrait is the “secret scheme of all autobiography.” Here, in fact, the story of events experienced by the narrator is less important than is the portrait she offers of herself in action. Organized in themes rather than along a narrative line, the self-portrait is constructed through a series of “reminders, returns, superimpositions, […]

Sylvain Campeau, Chambres obscures : photographie et installation – Manon Gosselin

Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Manon Gosselin, Sylvain Campeau

[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sylvain Campeau, Chambres obscures : photographie et installation, Laval, Éditions Trois, 1995, 288 pages.

Le silence des agneaux – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Essays
Authors: Sylvain Campeau

[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.   Summary On September 23, 1995, Vox Populi, in collaboration with the Musée d’art contemporain, organized a conference entitled “The Presence of Photography in Museum Collections: Specificity of a Medium and […]

Paul Lowry – Sylvain Campeau, Phantasma

Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Paul Lowry

[Winter 1995-1996] by Sylvain Campeau Paul Lowry’s work, from Photographs from the Grand Academy of Lagado (1989-90) through Copulation Studies (1993) to Man Figure (1995), has been inspired by various sources. One of the most important is the photographic system of J.H. Lamprey, a British anthropologist who tried to create a comparative visual catalogue of different […]