Sylvie Readman, Denis Rioux — Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Denis Rioux, Sylvie Readman

[Winter 2022] Galerie Laroche/Joncas, Montréal 8.09.2021 — 9.10.2021 By Mona Hakim [Excerpt] Presented in a single exhibition space and arranged facing each other, the photographs of Sylvie Readman and Denis Rioux highlight their common concern with the issues and properties of the photographic language within which the primary conditions of the visual and conceptual experience […]

Michel Huneault, On the Border – Mona Hakim

Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Michel Huneault

[January 13, 2022] By Mona Hakim. On the Border, Michel Huneault’s recent photographic project, begun during a residency at Centre Adélard in Frelighsburg in fall 2020, was transposed to an online presentation thanks to a highly productive creative collaboration with Agence TOPO1. Sixty landscape images and an equal number of […]

Michel Huneault

Judith Bellavance — Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Judith Bellavance

[Summer 2021] Le goût de la durée Occurrence, espace d’art et d’essai contemporains, Montréal 15.09.2020 — 7.11.2020 Par Mona Hakim On the walls of the smallest room in Galerie Occurrence are intriguing photographs of a bare, dingy hall. Captured by photographer Judith Bellavance, the basement of a Gaspé village church seems frozen in time. Bellavance […]

Normand Rajotte — Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 115 - THE MARCH OF THE WORLD | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Normand Rajotte

[Summer 2020] This article was originally published in French only. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sur les lieux La Castiglione, Montréal Du 2 octobre au 9 novembre 2019 Par Charles Guilbert (En Français seulement)   See the magazine for the complete article and more images: Ciel […]

Guillaume Simoneau, Experimental Lake – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Guillaume Simoneau

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

Rencontre photographique du Kamouraska – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Baptiste Grison, Louis Perreault, Martin Schop

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.

Claude Goulet, Les Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Lynne Cohen

September 29, 2020 [originally published in CV107 in Fall 2017] — Claude Goulet is the founder and director of Les Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie. This major event, has become an essential destination, with its outdoor photographic installations and its different thematic and pedagogical facets…

Le livre photographique : un état des lieux – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim

[Spring-Summer 2017] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris Photo, Offprint et Polycopies par Mona Hakim (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.]   Purchase this article

Yoanis Menge, HAKAPIK – Mona Hakim, Countering the Negative Image

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Portfolios
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Yoanis Menge

March 12, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — HAKAPIK did not go unnoticed during its presentation at Occurrence. The subject was an attention-grabber: a report on the seal hunt by Yoanis Menge, a photographer from Îles de la Madeleine who totally immersed himself in the lives of groups of hunters off the coast of the Canadian North…

Campeau, Carrière, Clément: Accumulations – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bertrand Carrière, Michel Campeau, Serge Clément

September 24, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Michel Lamothe, Fréquenter le paysage – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Michel Lamothe

October 3, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Pierre Blache, Non loin de Chandigarh – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Pierre Blache

September 21, 2017 [originally published in French in CV92 in Fall 2012] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Serge Emmanuel Jongué, Capturing and Narrating the Unspeakable – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 90 – COLLABORATIONS | Essays
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Serge Emmanuel Jongué

May 24, 2017 [originally published in CV90 in Winter 2012] — The name Serge Emmanuel Jongué (who died in 2006) was not unknown in the photographic community. In his important essay titled “The New Photographic Order,” published in 1990,¹ Jongué cast a lucid eye on the issues in Quebec documentary photography in the 1970s. His reinterpretation of the official discourse attached to this photographic school has become a classic for those interested in the history and comprehension of Quebec photographic practices.

Alain Pratte, Histoires – Mona Hakim, A Thousand Journeys

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Pratte

October 20, 2016 [originally published in Winter 2011] — Since 1973, Alain Pratte has produced numerous photographic projects, a number of which have been in exhibitions in Canada and abroad, including France and Venezuela. His work bears witness to passing time, the permanence or fleeting aspect of objects, unpredictable fates, and illusory ambitions.

Exposer la photographie – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim

[Fall 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Alain Paiement, Parages – Mona Hakim, Les constructions de la vision

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Paiement

[Spring 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract With Parages, Alain Paiement continues his research on the modes of apprehension and representation of space in his main fields of interest, dealing with photography, architecture, cartography, and painting. Here, […]

Alain Paiement, Refaire surface – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Paiement

[Fall 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Clark Du 10 mai au 17 juin 2001

Marian Penner Bancroft, By Land and Sea (Prospect and Refuge) – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Marian Penner Bancroft

[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. By Land and Sea (Prospect and Refuge) Galerie de l’UQAM du 8 septembre au 7 octobre 2000

Serge Clément, Persona – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Serge Clément

[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Occurrence du 16 mai au 18 juin 2000

Sylvie Readman, Convergences élémentaires – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Sylvie Readman

[Spring 2000] 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 29 octobre au 4 décembre 1999

Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bertien Van Manen, Pelle Kronestedt

[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.

Les axes de la continuité – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 48 – QUEBEC PHOTO, THE 90S | Essays
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Paiement, Carol Dallaire, Loren Williams, Lucie Lefebvre, Nathalie Caron

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

Carl Bouchard – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Carl Bouchard

[Summer 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Carl Bouchard’s self-portraits are fictitious, emotional mises en scène, in which the laying bare of the body corresponds to the laying bare of feelings. Bouchard is a multi-disciplinary artist, and […]

Clara Gutsche, La série des couvents – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Clara Gutsche

[Printemps 1999] 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 de Joliette Du 18 octobre 1998 au 10 janvier 1999

Andrea Szilasi – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Andrea Szilasi

[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Circa Du 9 janvier au 13 février 1999

C’est la vie – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Joachim Mogarra, Lucy Gunning, Sally Mann

[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. Dans le cadre de la 1ère Biennale de Montréal Du 27 août au 18 octobre 1998

Charles Gagnon, Observations – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Charles Gagnon

[Fall 1998] 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 mai au 27 septembre 1998

David Rasmus, Offrande – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: David Rasmus

[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Vox, Montréal Du 19 mars au 19 avril 1998

Raymonde April, Les Fleuves tranquilles – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Raymonde April

[Spring 1998] 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 de Joliette 21 septembre 1997 – 4 janvier 1998

Benoît Aquin, Haïti chérie – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Benoit Aquin

[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Occurrence, centre d’art et d’essai contemporains