Ciel variable 129 - FROM CONTINENT TO CONTINENT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Julie Martin
[Summer 2025] Faits divers by Julie Martin [EXCERPT] Considered a minor form of news, often replete with sordid situations, faits divers (weird local news items) lure and fascinate as much as they draw repugnance and contempt. Although this ambivalence is key to how we think of such content, the artists gathered at the MAC VAL […]
Ciel variable 126 – TRAJECTORIES | Portfolios
Authors: Julie Martin | Artists: Patrick Beaulieu
[Summer 2024] On the Road to Nowhere by Julie Martin [EXCERPT] What story can photographs tell? How can a performance be reconstructed? How can travel be recounted with still images? These questions traverse the histories of performance and of photography, and are at the core of the work of the artist Patrick Beaulieu, who updates […]
Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Portfolios
Authors: Julie Martin
[Winter 2024] Urban Intrusion By Julie Martin [Excerpt] Here, petals in subtle variations of red. There, the intricately traced veins of a leaf. Elsewhere, delicate yellow stamens; and farther on, a clean green sepal and half-open cottony buds. In her series Nouvelles espèces de compagnie, produced in 2017 for a commission from the city of […]
Biennials & Co.
Authors: Julie Martin
[October 5 2022] By Julie Martin. The exhibition A Feminist Avant-Garde. Photographs and Performances from the 1970s, organized by curator Gabriele Schor and presented at Arles during the 2022 Rencontres de la photographie, features photographs and videos from the collection of the Verbund Foundation, situated in Vienna…
Ciel variable 118 - EXHIBITING PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
Authors: Julie Martin | Artists: Massimo Vitali
[Fall 2021] By Julie Martin [Excerpt] As far back as the 1990s, American literary critic Fredric Jameson was noting that the world is non-narrative and unrepresentable.1 Drawing an analogy with the urban planner Kevin Lynch’s book The Image in the City, Jameson showed that because we, as urban dwellers, are incapable of situating our- selves […]