Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Betty Bogaert
[December 16, 2021] By Louis Perreault. Over the Vercors massif and the Haute-Maurienne valley roll heavy clouds, saturated with what may be tomorrow’s weather. Night falls slowly. In a hut overlooking a grassy expanse, tea leaves are dropped into boiling water, and the creaking of old…
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Josée Pedneault
[December 16, 2021] By Louis Perreault. Scientific accounts explaining the origin of the universe have always been confronted with beliefs arising from the times within which they were pronounced. Although the great laws of physics have probably elucidated the mystery of the creation of…
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Guillaume Tomasi
[December 15, 2021] By Louis Perreault. Certain events transform our lives, leaving indelible marks of their passage. The usual and the common are no longer what they used to be, and the people around us are suddenly thrown into a new light…
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Sarah Boutin
[December 9, 2021] By Louis Perreault Artist Sarah Boutin’s Prendre fin1 isn’t, properly speaking, a photobook; it’s more like a creative journal or an artist book. In addition to presenting series of photographs, it contains screen captures showing various research images and drawings made by Boutin, as well as poetry and philosophical reflections. Her artistic […]
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Louis Perreault
[December 7, 2021] By Louis Perreault. “Human experience is a memory instantly archived and digitized.”1 This statement sets the table for an adventure in the world of artist Antoine Giroux. At first, we resist the statement…
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Hubert Gaudreau
[November 30, 2021] By Louis Perreault. Two golden circles overlap, like a Venn diagram, on the front of Hubert Gaudreau’s softcover book Les autres imaginaires1. The theory of groups that Gaudreau proposes is indeed composed of interconnected elements. That is, as long as we are ready to enter these…
Authors: Louis Perreault
[November 30, 2021] By Louis Perreault. In Mosquitia, a coastal region in northeast Honduras, the “woman of the waters,” better known locally as liwa mairin, reigns. The daring men who dive into the depths of the Caribbean Sea to catch sea cucumbers and other fine edibles too often pay the price of her curse…
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Simon Émond
[November 23, 2021] By Louis Perreault. On the cover of Rebâtir le ciel, the terms associated with different gender identities are intermingled with those of astronomy. Androgyny, near-Earth object, gender dysphoria, black galaxy, lesbophobia, telluric planet, biological sex, and other radio-astronomical bodies form a sort of long poem…
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Jessica Auer
[November 23, 2021] By Louis Perreault. In Jessica Auer’s most recent film, Shore Power, one scene could act as prelude for Looking North. We see a large window, opening out to a calm body of water. After a moment, on the right, a huge ferry appears and then crosses the image very slowly…
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Anne-Marie Proulx
[November 23, 2021] By Louis Perreault. Stretching out on the black asphalt are rays of hard light that have pierced through the foliage of a white ash tree. Farther on, cobblestones, aged by several hundred years of foot, car, and horse traffic, suggest an old American city, which is not named…
Ciel variable 117 - SHIFTED | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Ron Jude
[Summer 2021] 12 Hz Ron Jude Londres, Mack Books, 2020, 128 p. Par Louis Perreault [Excerpt] Even before we open its cover, 12 Hz seems to vibrate on the table. As we plunge into the ice, rock, and powerful sea currents that mark out the pages of this book by American photographer Ron Jude, we […]
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Kristine Potter
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. TBW Books, Oakland, 2018, 92 p., 48 duotones Par Louis Perreault (French only) [The printed and digital versions of the issue CV110 are on sale here : Ciel variable 110 – […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Essays
Authors: Louis Perreault
July 31, 2017 [originally published in CV109 in Spring 2018] — First, there was a fox. A few strollers noticed him, but he evaded a closer look by disappearing into the weeds of a post-industrial lot in Montreal East. I quickly took a liking to the animal and made him a sort of personal totem…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Mathieu Asselin
August 17, 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.
Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Vincent Delbrouck
April 6, 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.
Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Masahisa Fukase
September 29, 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.
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault
May 21, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Gregory Halpern
March 23, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.