Ciel variable 107 - RUINS – Ciel variable Magazine

Claude Goulet, Les Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Interviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Lynne Cohen

September 29, 2020 [originally published in CV107 in Fall 2017] — Claude Goulet is the founder and director of Les Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie. This major event, has become an essential destination, with its outdoor photographic installations and its different thematic and pedagogical facets…

Masahisa Fukase, Ravens – Louis Perreault

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.

Thierry Gervais dir., The « Public » Life of Photographs – Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande et Julie-Ann Latulippe

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Book Reviews
Authors: Julie-Ann Latulippe, Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande

October 6, 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.

A Handful of Dust – John K. Grande

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: John K. Grande

January 20, 2020 [originally published in CV107 in Fall 2017] — Everything vanishes and yet it all remains, changed somehow, interpreted differently: ashes to ashes, dust to dust. A Handful of Dust is a show that has a mysterious point of departure that is as much about the ambiguities of art in photography as it is about the way art fuses, morphs, reinvents conceptions, how it is a process long before and after realization…

Pauline Boudry et Renate Lorenz – Milly-Alexandra Dery et Laurence Garneau

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Laurence Garneau, Milly-Alexandra Dery | Artists: Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz

October 13, 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.

Peter Campus – Michèle Cohen Hadria

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Peter Campus

October 20, 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.

Sara A. Tremblay et Léna Mill-Reuillard – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Léna Mill-Reuillard, Sara A. Tremblay

October 27, 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.

Serge Tousignant – Christian Roy

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Serge Tousignant

November 3, 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.

Vide et Vertige – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Ivan Binet, Jocelyne Alloucherie, Mathieu Cardin

November 10, 2020 [originally published in CV107 in Fall 2017] — This exhibition of works by Jocelyne Alloucherie, Ivan Binet, and Mathieu Cardin was brilliantly dovetailed in terms of theme and installed with consummate finesse in mortise-and-tenon fashion from floor to floor in all the gallery spaces.

Evergon et Jean-Jacques Ringuette – Karl-Gilbert Murray

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Karl-Gilbert Murray | Artists: Evergon, Jean-Jacques Ringuette

November 17, 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.

Nelson Henricks – Charles Guilbert

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Nelson Henricks

November 24, 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.

Perpetual Revolution – Daniel Fiset

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Daniel Fiset

December 1, 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.

NFB, Still Photography Division Service – Pierre Dessureault

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Essays
Authors: Pierre Dessureault

December 8, 2020 [originally published in CV107 in Fall 2017] — The NFB’s Still Photography Division was created in 1941, as a Canadian government information agency under the direction of John Grierson. By 1985, when the small unit’s production, now a collection of photographs, became the core of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Division had produced some 250,000 images.

Katia Kameli, Délio Jasse, Vasco Araújo, Photographs Back from the Void… – Érika Nimis

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Essays
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Délio Jasse, Katia Kameli, Vasco Araújo

December 15, 2020 [originally published in CV107 in Fall 2017] — Three solo exhibitions (Katia Kameli, Délio Jasse, and Vasco Araújo) organized in London late in 2016 featured episodes from African and European history, particularly during the colonial period, in which the artists used “traces,” mainly photographic corpuses dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, updated via different media and devices.

Emanuel Licha, The Work of Seeing – Guillaume Lafleur

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Essays
Authors: Guillaume Lafleur | Artists: Emanuel Licha

December 22, 2020 [originally published in CV107 in Fall 2017] — Hotel Machine is a feature-length film in the current meaning of the term. It is Licha’s first production of this type, as he comes from the contemporary-art world and his work has usually been presented in galleries. It is related to the trend in documentary cinema that involves taking solid formal points of view – a trend that has been validated by following the traditional levers of funding.

Joan Fontcuberta, Trauma – Sylvain Campeau, Autopsy of a Disappearance

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Joan Fontcuberta

January 11, 2021 [originally published in CV107 in Fall 2017] — In his work, Joan Fontcuberta explores the effects of the real and the capacity for truth generated by the technological image, in order to denounce the authoritarian discourses regarding information and knowledge. His other subjects include nature and the functions of the image in digital culture.

André Barrette, Fin de Siglo – Alexis Desgagnés, Fin de siècle in Cuba

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Portfolios
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés | Artists: André Barrette

January 18, 2021 [originally published in CV107 in Fall 2017] — André Barrette likely never wanted his art in the spotlight. That is why, outside of the community of artist-run centres in Quebec City, relatively little is known about his discreet but important contribution to Quebec photography landscape in recent decades.

Michel Campeau, The Donkey that Became a Zebra : histoires de chambre noire – Joan Fontcuberta, Fire, Prayers and the Place of Photography

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Portfolios
Authors: Joan Fontcuberta | Artists: Michel Campeau

January 25, 2021 [originally published in CV107 in Fall 2017] — Just when we thought we had all the answers to the enigma of our memory fixed in silver salts, life – without so much as a by-your-leave – changed the questions. Perhaps because life is not a problem to be solved, as Søren Kierkegaard said, but a reality to be experienced…

Ruins

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Portfolios
Artists: André Barrette, Joan Fontcuberta, Michel Campeau

[Fall 2017 ] — Thematic Introduction

Three Moments of Ruin

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Fall 2017 ] — Editorial of Ciel variable 105 – Ruins

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 […]