Biennials & Co.
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly
[October 5 2022] By Ariane Noël de Tilly. When she wrote her children’s book The Milk of Dreams, the Mexican surrealist artist Leonora Carrington certainly had no idea that one day the book would become a major source of inspiration for the exhibition curator Cecilia Alemani, who borrowed its title for the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale…
Ciel variable 120 - FIGURES OF AFFIRMATION | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Sarah Moon
[Summer 2022] By Ariane Noël de Tilly Fotografiska, New York 15.10.2021— 6.02.2022 [Excerpt] It was La robe à pois (1996), a large-format photograph placed at the entrance to the exhibition, that invited visitors to immerse themselves in the enigmatic universe, sometimes in colour but usually in black and white, of French photographer Sarah Moon. In […]
Ciel variable 119 - AGAINST NATURE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Dawoud Bey
[Winter 2022] Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 17.04.2021 — 3.10.2021 By Ariane Noël de Tilly [Excerpt] Since the very inception of his photographic career, Dawoud Bey has pointed his lens toward people and, especially, marginalized communities. The retrospective of his work presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art highlighted the ethical dimension […]
Ciel variable 118 - EXHIBITING PHOTOGRAPHY | Book Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly
[Fall 2021] By Ariane Noël de Tilly [Excerpt] The image chosen to illustrate the cover of Women Street Photographers is certainly striking: a detail from Red Upsweep (2019) by B Jane Levine; the photograph is reproduced in its entirety inside the book. The centre of this truncated image is dominated by the head and shoulders […]
Ciel variable 115 - THE MARCH OF THE WORLD | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Isaac Julien
[Fall 2019] This article was originally published in French only. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Isaac Julien Frederick Douglass: Lessons of the Hour SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah Du 3 octobre au 15 décembre 2019 By Ariane Noël de Tilly (In French only) See the […]
Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Ansley West Rivers
[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Jepson Center, Telfair Museums, Savannah Du 10 mai au 3 novembre 2019 Par Ariane Noël de Tilly (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete […]
Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Martha Rosler
[Summer 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Jewish Museum, New York 2 novembre 2018 – 3 mars 2019 By Ariane Noël de Tilly (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. […]
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Raqs Media Collective
[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Portfolios
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Carol Sawyer
November 10, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — For twenty years, Vancouver artist Carol Sawyer has constructed a speculative history around her character Natalie Brettschneider, through whom she has introduced the art practices of a number of previously overlooked artists who developed within alternative circles…
Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Harry Callahan
April 14, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Barbara Kruger, Hannah Höch, Hito Steyerl
February 3, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Essays
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Stan Douglas
January 7, 2019 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — Stan Douglas’s earlier productions include Every Building on 100 West Hastings (2001), a nocturnal panorama of a block of buildings situated in a poor Vancouver neighbourhood, and the series of four photographs Crowds & Riots (2008), depicting reconstructions of crowd scenes and riots that took place in Vancouver during the twentieth century…
Ciel variable 74 - LOGOS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Douglas Gordon
[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. Museum of Modern Art, New York du 11 juin au 4 septembre 2006
Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: BGL
[Fall 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Optica, Montréal du 28 avril au 3 juin 2006