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Are you looking for interviews or an artist’s portfolios? Would you like to reread an exhibition or book review? In this section, you can access the content of archived Ciel variable issues by exploring different types of articles published in the magazine.

EDITORIAL

Another look at things

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Marisa Portolese, Yoanis Menge

[Fall 2016] The works in this issue’s thematic section are anchored in realities diametrically opposed to each other – the seal hunt, social marginality, and representation of women – and are from different times. These works nevertheless come together in their challenging of prejudices and dominant thought systems. In fact, each proposes to portray people […]

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, […]

Gabor Szilasi, A Portrait in Interiors – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Interviews
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés | Artists: Benoit Aquin, Gabor Szilasi

November 4, 2019 [originally published in Spring 2016] — Eighty-eight years old. Decorum would have us qualify this age as venerable. Anyone who divides this number into decades will better measure the span of a lifetime devoted almost entirely to photography. We know about the immense contribution of Gabor Szilasi, who was born in Budapest in 1928 and arrived in Quebec after leaving Hungary in 1956, to the history of Quebec photography…

Kate Hutchinson, The Park – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Book Reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Kate Hutchinson

November 6, 2019 [originally published in Spring 2016] — Sometime in the early twenty-third century, a sealed copper box is found interred at the foot of the excavated cross on top of Montreal’s estimable Mount Royal. Once opened, archaeologists and sundry forensic experts find a fulsome sheaf of what seem to be vernacular images…

Bertrand Carrière, Le capteur – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

November 11, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Daido Moriyama – Michèle Cohen Hadria  

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Daido Moriyama

November 13, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Catherine Bodmer – Isadora Chicoine-Marinier

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Isadora Chicoine-Marinier | Artists: Catherine Bodmer

November 18, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Petra Mala Miller – Stephen Horne

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Petra Mala Miller

November 20, 2019 [originally published in Spring 2016] — Walking into a room full of strangers can be a disconcerting experience, exposing us to questions about belonging and difference. In contrast to such an expectation, Petra Mala Miller’s exhibition Portraits in Light offers a welcoming embrace, perhaps one that recognizes our commonality as strangers.

Yann Pocreau – Claire Moeder

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Claire Moeder | Artists: Yann Pocreau

November 25, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Stan Douglas – Érika Wicky

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Erika Wicky | Artists: Stan Douglas

December 3, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Nadia Seboussi – Claudia Polledri

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Nadia Seboussi

December 3, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Thomas Kneubühler – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Thomas Kneubühler

December 9, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Vox Populi 1985-1989, The origins of VOX, Ciel variable, and Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal – Marcel Blouin

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Essays
Authors: Marcel Blouin

December 11, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — It was Lucie Bureau who thought up the organization’s name. She was working at Radio Centre-Ville, a multilingual community radio station broadcasting from St. Lawrence Boulevard in Montreal. The name came to mind because she was producing “vox populi” pieces about social and cultural issues…

Bamako, A Biennale that Took the Time to Witness – Érika Nimis

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Essays
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Coco Fusco, Em’kal Eyongakpa, George Mahashe, Georges Senga, Héla Ammar, J. D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere, Lebohang Kganye, Lola Khalfa, Moussa Kalapo, Seydou Camara, Sihem Salhi, Uche Okpa-Iroha, Youssef Lahrichi

December 16, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — The biennale in Bamako, Mali, came to an end on December 31, 2015. This anniversary edition – the tenth – had been delayed by two years due to a major crisis that occurred in 2012. Even a few weeks before the opening, there was still a climate of uncertainty, though it was quickly swept away by the invigorating enthusiasm of the organizing committee.

Ishiuchi Miyako, Stills of the Wounded: A North American Emergence – Claude Baillargeon

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Essays
Authors: Claude Baillargeon | Artists: Ishiuchi Miyako

December 18, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — Active since 1975 as a fiercely independent photographer in her native Japan, Ishiuchi Miyako has at last achieved significant recognition on the North American art scene…

Isabelle Hayeur, Desert Shores (L’Amérique perdue) – Stephen Horne, Photographing In the Anthropocene

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Portfolios
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur

January 6, 2020 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — Dead trees, a few dried-up pigeons, some rotting fish, and broken-up cottages: what is the world that these make up? From the perspective of Montreal documentary photographer Isabelle Hayeur, this is a landscape – that is, a space inhabited with suburbs and industrial plants…

Geneviève Chevalier, Mon boisé, phase II – John K. Grande, My Woodland, or the Developers’?

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Portfolios
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Geneviève Chevalier

January 8, 2020 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — So pervasive have the interventions become that they challenge the stereotype of nature as an ongoing and seemingly inexhaustible eternal backdrop to all that we do. Our era is all about the intertwining of the human built landscape and the natural world…

Jessica Auer, January – James D. Campbell, Bluer than Blue

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Portfolios
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Jessica Auer

January 13, 2020 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — Who better than a seasoned photographer to explore the phenomenology of light? Jessica Auer’s recent series January, created during a 2015 residency in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, is a thematic work of great visual poetry…

Nature

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Portfolios
Artists: Geneviève Chevalier, Isabelle Hayeur, Jessica Auer

[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 a […]

This Nature that Is Our World

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Geneviève Chevalier, Isabelle Hayeur, Jessica Auer

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 […]

Quentin Bajac, Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015. Photography at MoMA: 1960 to Now  – Zoë Tousignant

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Interviews
Authors: Quentin Bajac, Zoë Tousignant

August 21, 2019 [originally published in Winter 2016] — Quentin Bajac has been the chief curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, since 2013. In the fall of 2015, MoMA opened the exhibition Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 (November 7, 2015, to March 20, 2016) and published the third volume in the Photography at MoMA.

New and Worthy – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Book Reviews
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

[Winter 2016] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. par Alexis Desgagnés Download this article (Free of Charge)

Recréer/Scripter, Anne Bénichou (dir.) – Franz Anton Cramer

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Book Reviews
Authors: Anne Bénichou, Franz Anton Cramer

August 28, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Les paradoxes du détail, Érika Wicky – Daniel Fiset

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Book Reviews
Authors: Daniel Fiset, Erika Wicky

September 4, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Scott Conarroe, Canada By Rail and By Sea – Jon Davies

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Jon Davies | Artists: Scott Conarroe

9 Septembre 2019 [originellement publié à l’hiver 2016] — Born in 1974 in Edmonton, Scott Conarroe is best known for his continent-spanning By Rail (2007–09) and By Sea (2009–11). In these photographic series, Conarroe employed a large-format camera and long exposures to consider the U.S. and Canadian landscape, and the myriad transformations that it has undergone, via its expansive railways and coastlines.

Alain Laframboise, Le sens du quotidien – Gabrielle Desgagné-Duclos

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Gabrielle Desgagné-Duclos | Artists: Alain Laframboise

September 11, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Nicole Jolicoeur, Toucher sur image (vibrato) – Sheena Gourlay

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sheena Ellison | Artists: Nicole Jolicoeur

September 16, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Yto Barrada, Beaux Gestes – Blake Fitzpatrick

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Blake Fitzpatrick | Artists: Yto Barrada

September 18, 2019 [originellement publié à l’hiver 2016] — The rupturing effects of global change – as epitomized recently by news stories about migrants in over-crowded boats, with bodies on deck, in the hull, and in the sea – come to roost at the local level, where the risks of globalization are most exposed but also potentially transformed through acts of resistance…