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Jinyoung Kim, Here – Gabrielle Sarthou, Uprooted, Taking Root

Ciel variable 128 – CHANGE OF SCENE | Portfolios
Authors: Gabrielle Sarthou | Artists: Jinyoung Kim

Jinyoung Kim’s journey is one of emigration, from South Korea to Canada. Although the places are briefly mentioned, it is the very idea of displacement, and the upheavals associated with such uprooting, that forms the core of his works.

Fabiano Kueva, Archive Alexandre de Humboldt Montréal – Gabrielle Sarthou

Ciel variable 126 – TRAJECTORIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Gabrielle Sarthou | Artists: Fabiano Kueva

[Summer 2024] by Gabrielle Sarthou [EXCERPT] The exhibition Archive Alexandre de Humboldt Montréal, organized in collaboration with the independent curator Emmanuelle Choquette, is part of a project built over more than ten years by the Ecuadorian artist, curator, and director Fabiano Kueva, whose works combine sound art, installation, and experimental video. It was presented as […]

Sarka Vancurova, Street Portraits of Young Couples – Gabrielle Sarthou

Documentary photography
Authors: Gabrielle Sarthou | Artists: Sarka Vancurova

[August 23, 2023] By Gabrielle Sarthou. It was in Montreal in 2020, during the pandemic lockdown and the even stricter conditions of the ensuing curfew, that photographer Sarka Vancurova started her series Street Portraits of Young Couples. Her gelatin silver photographs present young couples in search of physical and social connection during a time of generalized forced isolation…

Sarka Vancurova

Angela Grauerholz, The Empty S(h)elf – Gabrielle Sarthou

Ciel variable 123 – THE POWER OF INTIMACY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Gabrielle Sarthou | Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Summer 2023] Gabrielle Sarthou Occurrence, Montréal 4.11.2022 — 17.12.2022 [Excerpt] Despite its title, this second iteration of Angela Grauerholz’s installation The Empty S(h)elf, presented at Galerie Occurrence in Montréal, is not at all empty: it is polymorphous and dense, at the intersection between language and image, words and thoughts. We discover it fortuitously, as we […]

Emmanuelle Léonard, Black Out : Les livreurs / The Deliverers — Gabrielle Sarthou, Those Who Wait for Us

Ciel variable 122 – NIGHT ROUNDS | Portfolios
Authors: Gabrielle Sarthou | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard

[Winter 2023] Those Who Wait for Us By Gabrielle Sarthou [Excerpt] Going from place to place in the city. The sidewalk unfurls under our feet. The stores scroll by, one after another. Sometimes, we no longer notice the neon signs or the people we pass. The faces fade. We classify, we consider, then we forget. […]

Laurence Hervieux-Gosselin — Gabrielle Sarthou

Ciel variable 116 — LANDSCAPES AS MIRRORS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Gabrielle Sarthou | Artists: Laurence Hervieux-Gosselin

[Winter 2021] This article was originally published in French only. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Fenêtre oubliée Galerie la Castiglione chez Produit Rien, Montréal Du 3 au 26 septembre 2020 By Gabrielle Sarthou (En français seulement) See the magazine for the complete article and more […]