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Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Baptiste Grison, Louis Perreault, Martin Schop
April 11, 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 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: David Goldblatt, Meleko Mokgosi, Sue Williamson
June 1, 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 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Essays
Authors: Florence Chantoury-Lacombe | Artists: Alain Laframboise
June 8, 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 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Essays
Authors: Jill Glessing | Artists: 2fik, Johan Hallberg-Campbell, Katherine Knight, Luis Jacob, Margo Pfeiff, Mark Lewis, Michael Snow, Michelle Latimer, Sandra Brewster, Suzy Lake
June 15, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] —
Promotion for “Canada 150” – marking the inception of the colonial enterprise of the “Dominion of Canada” and its unequal union with Quebec – was tepid, perhaps foretelling the inevitable response: a hundred and fifty years old – really? The land, of course, had been inhabited a little longer than that – about twelve thousand years – by Indigenous peoples…
Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Essays
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Angela Grauerholz, David McMillan, Gabor Szilasi, George Hunter, Jeff Wall, Jim Breukelman, Jin-Me Yoon, John Massey, Ken Lum, Lynne Cohen, Nina Raginsky, Robert Burley
June 22, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — It seems less and less possible to analyze photography and photographic history without talking about production protocols, dissemination strategies, and contexts for conservation and display in public collections. Andrea Kunard situates her undertaking in regard to this position from the start…
Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Essays
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Akram Zaatari, Meryl McMaster, Pascal Grandmaison, Taryn Simon, Yto Barrada, Zanele Muholi
February 21, 2018 [originally published in CV108 in Winter 2018] — In June 2017, Le Mois de la Photo de Montréal metamorphosed to the Biennale de l’image, taking on the name MOMENTA, plural of momentum, which means “impetus, energy, force, thrust, drive, impulse”1 and often denotes a favourable or propitious situation. Would the update to this international event devoted to the contemporary fixed and moving image be successful and yet provide continuity with the old formula?…
Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Portfolios
Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Abbas Kiarostami, Abbas Kowsari, Arash Khamooshi, Azadeh Akhlaghi, Azin Haghighi, Babak Kazemi, Behnam Zakeri, Gohar Dashti, Kaveh Kazemi, Morteza Niknahad, Newsha Tavakolian, Shadi Ghadirian, Sina Shiri, Solmaz Daryani
[Winter 2018] By Claudia Polledri Written in Farsi on a white box abandoned on the black asphalt of Pahlavi Avenue in Tehran, the day after the Islamic revolution prevailed – on February 11, 1979 – is “The nation is victorious.” This is the first image in the exhibition Iran, Année 38,1 presented at the most […]
Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Portfolios
Authors: Zoë Tousignant | Artists: Gabor Szilasi
June 29, 2021 [originally published in CV108 in Winter 2018] — Photographer Gabor Szilasi was born in Hungary in 1928 and immigrated to Canada in 1957. Soon after settling in Montreal, Szilasi began to photograph the many art openings that he and his wife, artist Doreen Lindsay, regularly attended…
Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Portfolios
Authors: Laurent Vernet | Artists: Justin Wonnacott
July 6, 2021 [originally published in CV108 in Winter 2018] — “Obsession”: that’s the word that photographer Justin Wonnacott uses to explain his ambitious project Pictures of Art (Images d’art). The subject of this series, which numbers 350 images to date, is the artworks found in public spaces and sites (monuments, works of public art and works integrated with architecture, graffiti) in the National Capital Region….
[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 circumscribes […]
Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Winter 2018] By Jacques Doyon This issue’s thematic section presents 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 concrete civic and […]
[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 | 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…
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 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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…