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In this stream is the full content of the magazine’s issues published since 1986, except for the most recent three years. A huge trove of content is offered for consultation and research.

The issues are presented in sections that correspond to the major periods in the evolution of Ciel variable, related to changes in the editorial team, development of its content and design, or modifications to its name and logo.

CV100 – CV112

CV77 – CV99

CV50 – CV76

CV20 – CV49

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Ciel variable 112 – COLLECTIONS REVISITED

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED

[Summer 2019]

Three recent exhibitions offer a rare look at the act of collecting. In Archipel, Serge Clément presents a collection of all the photobooks that he has made – books that can be seen as sequencings of collections of his own images. Bertrand Carrière immerses himself in the collection of the Cinémathèque québécoise, focusing on film noir, extracting paradigmatic images and exploring the plays on temporality inherent to the crossfade. Finally, the collection of Jack Lazare represents a rare example of a collection patiently assembled over the years to reflect a melancholic vision of a world in difficulty.

Ciel variable 111 – THE SPACE OF COLOUR

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR, Complete Archives

[Winter 2019]

From the manipulation of light (through filtering, combination, or diffraction) to work on the supporting medium (film, photographic paper, walls) to searching out pictorial compositions on city streets, a space of exploration opens up for photography around the various manifestations of colour. The result is images that challenge our perceptions. Often, the referent for these works is abstract painting, with its long tradition of experimentation, but the real also bears its share of perceptual ambiguity with regard to the impact of colours.

Ciel variable 110 – MIGRATION

Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION, Complete Archives

[Fall 2018]

More than thresholds, borders have become a kind of non-place – extra-national zones – where migrants’ identities and statuses are examined and their statuses held in suspension for periods that are increasingly long and undetermined. In this issue, we examine certain aspects of the crossing of borders with works that explore how migrants are received and integrated, and the identity-related questions raised by such territorial movements.

Ciel variable 109 – REVISIT

Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT, Complete Archives

[Spring-Summer 2018]

The works brought together in this issue look back at significant phenomena and events in recent history to bring them back to memory and assess their current relevance. These are prolific works, with multiple iterations, that take forms as complex as their subjects: an entire field of artistic practices, pioneering works and pivotal moments, and the multiplication of cultural artefacts that are subject to intense ideological manipulations.

Ciel variable 108 – Going Public

Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC

  [Winter 2018] This issue’s thematic section shows works that come from a wide variety of places and times, but all are marked by the notion of public visibility. These three bodies of work cover a wide spectrum of what defines the public space for artistic expression, ranging from the societal and cultural context that […]

Ciel variable 107 – RUINS

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS

  [Fall 2017] The artists whose works are brought together here under the theme of ruins are interested in capturing the traces of a disappearing world, a world in which the evolution of the photographic image is symptomatic of a more fundamental transformation of culture and social values as a whole. EDITORIAL PORTFOLIOS FOCUS EXHIBITIONS […]

Ciel variable 106 – TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS

Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS

  [Spring-Summer 2017] At first glance, the works presented here might seem to be simply about work on a motif. A more attentive look, however, shows that what is indicated here, in this focus on trees, or icebergs, or clouds, is the shaping of natural elements by human action on a landscape that has become […]

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES

May 14, 2020 [originally published in Winter 2017] — The complete content of CV105 is now available online including porfolios of Robert Walker and Images of Montreal, essays about Canadian Photography Magazines 1970-1990, Jessica Eaton, Ensemble and Artgeist II, an interview with Hélène Samson as well as several recent exhibition and publication reviews…

Ciel variable 104 – FROM ANOTHER ANGLE

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE

  [Fall 2016] With great sensitivity and remarkable image quality, the works brought together in this section offer a renewed gaze at discredited realities and experiences. They do this by showing us people in their living environments. And yet, it is not individuals that these works offer as much as a certain order of representation, […]

Ciel variable 103 – NATURE

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE

  [Spring-Summer 2016] There are places where nature’s presence is more intensely felt, where the question of the city’s interrelations with its natural environment emerges more spontaneously. Certain circumstances are also conducive to raising such reflections – among them, sense of unfamiliarity experienced during a stay abroad, obvious deterioration in the equilibrium or beauty of […]

Ciel variable 102 – FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE

[Winter 2016] Globalization is making us more aware of the realities of the entire planet through news, visits, and business travel. In addition, urbanization and consumer markets are tending to bring cultures and lifestyles ever closer to each other. Even so, and fortunately, diversity and differences remain. What is more, the most radical forms of […]

Ciel variable 101 – STRATA

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA

[Fall 2015] STRATA features works by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Moyra Davey, and Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf. The comprehension of these bodies of work assumes a peeling away of the various strata of signs that form them. ÉDITORIAL PORTFOLIOS FOCUS EXPOSITIONS LECTURES PAROLES Purchase this issue

Ciel variable 100 – REPLAY

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY

[Spring-Summer 2015] Appropriating visual artworks, as one interprets the works in a repertoire. Judging that, among all the works that exist, these ones still resonate sufficiently in the eyes and ears of contemporary spectators to justify the reignition of their interrogatory or denunciatory spark. What do these works say? ÉDITORIAL PORTFOLIOS FOCUS EXPOSITIONS LECTURES PAROLES […]

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