Here, you’ll find new articles added each week to our archives. Every year, three previous issues of the magazine are made accessible in their integrality, one article at the time.
Note that you can also access all of these articles through the sections and categories that structure the Ciel variable website.
[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 […]
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Entrevues, Interviews
Authors: Jacques Doyon, Louise Déry
May 10, 2022 [originally published in CV110 in Fall 2018 ] — An interview by Jacques Doyon. Louise Déry holds a PhD in art history and has been director of the Galerie de l’UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) since 1997; previously, she was director of the Musée régional de Rimouski and curator of contemporary art at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts…
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Guillaume Simoneau
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-Michel Quirion | Artists: Lucie Rocher
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: René Viau | Artists: Joey Morgan
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Eva Brandl
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Julien St-Georges Tremblay | Artists: Donigan Cumming
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Nathalie Bachand | Artists: Anne-Marie Proulx
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Rania Matar
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Andreas Gursky
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: David Goldblatt
[Fall 2018] —This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Essays
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Michel Campeau
February 22, 2022 [originally published in CV110 in Fall 2018 ] — The exhibition Michel Campeau – Life before Digital, a retrospective of Michel Campeau’s approach in the early 1970s, offers a wellrounded view of his ideas on photography, on the figure of the photographer, and on that of the collector who finally took over from the producer of images…
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Essays
Authors: Ellen Tolmie
February 16, 2022 [originally published in CV110 in Fall 2018 ] — A recent show at the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) challenges conventional notions of the lone photographer, the roles of subjects, and even the exhibition space. The idea of the photograph made by an individual, the photographer, now also lionized as artist and auteur, has long been embedded in the essential idea of what photography is…
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Essays
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Afterlife
February 9, 2022 [originally published in CV110 in Fall 2018 ] — In a remarkable group exhibition at Optica, Raymonde April, one of Canada’s finest living photographers, marshalled the talents of an intrepid group of itinerant fellow travellers – and to radiant effect…
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Portfolios
Authors: Émilie Serri | Artists: Émilie Serri
February 2, 2022 [originally published in CV110 in Fall 2018 ] — In March 2017, I crossed the country by train. On board The Canadian, I travelled a total distance of 8,932 kilometres on a return trip as a way to get moving on writing my master’s thesis…
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Richard Mosse
January 26, 2022 [originally published in CV110 in Fall 2018 ] — As he had first done in 2011 and 2013 for Infra and The Enclave, Mosse uses a military tracking technology. In those series, it was an infrared film camera capable of detecting human presences in dense foliage…
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Portfolios
Authors: Sophie Bertrand | Artists: Michel Huneault
January 19, 2022 [originally published in CV110 in Fall 2018] — Thanks to their inherent power, images may function to inform or to reinforce prejudices. For a number of years, photographer Michel Huneault has been concerned with deconstructing preconceived ideas about migratory issues. Each of his new series builds on the previous one…
[Winter 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 […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Book Reviews
Authors: François Brunet
August 10, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Mathieu Asselin
August 17, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Robert Anderson | Artists: Kotama Bouabane
August 24, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 2018] — If you think the title of Laotian-born, Canadian-raised artist Kotama Bouabane’s recent show at VU, We’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slow, sounds suspiciously like a lyric from a bad pop song, you’d be right. The title is from the song “Kokomo” by the Beach Boys…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Malick Sidibé
August 31, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Masako Miyazaki
September 7, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 2018] — Masako Miyazaki’s photography show titled A Tree complements her poetry. Some of the images were made in forests, fields, and landscapes on Montreal’s south shore, and others were made in Japan. Whether in Japan or Quebec, the landscape remains Miyazaki’s constant point of reference…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Janie Julien-Fort
Septembre 14, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Natascha Niederstrass
September 21, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 2018] — Over the last several years, at exhibitions in Montreal and elsewhere, Montreal-based photographic artist Natascha Niederstrass has earned a strong reputation for informing her work with forensic-photography aesthetics and infusing it with a full measure of chilling, even spine-tingling, premises and implications…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bill Viola
September 28, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Geneviève Chevalier | Artists: Daniel Canty
October 5, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala
Octobre 12, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — During a ten-year period that began in 1848, the rush to California in the mad hope of striking it rich was intertwined with the burgeoning ability to make a living through the new technology of photography…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Essays
Authors: Marie-Josée Jean | Artists: Jonathan Monk
Octobre 26, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — Exhibition views have taken on an increasingly important role since museum specialists began featuring them in exhibitions. Originally placed under glass, following a documentary protocol introduced via museology, this form of documentation has gradually come to be displayed on walls, occasionally ascribed the status of artwork…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Essays
Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Akram Zaatari
November 3, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — According to Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari, photography is expressed in many ways. This is the message of his exhibition, Against Photography: An Annotated History of the Arab Image Foundation, a kaleidoscopic journey, through stories and images…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Portfolios
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Carol Sawyer
November 10, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — For twenty years, Vancouver artist Carol Sawyer has constructed a speculative history around her character Natalie Brettschneider, through whom she has introduced the art practices of a number of previously overlooked artists who developed within alternative circles…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Portfolios
Authors: Jill Glessing | Artists: Blake Fitzpatrick, Vid Ingelevics
December 1, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — Movement is elemental to existence. Since we made our slow crawl from sea to land we’ve been “on the road” seeking better environments. But another force – territorialism – counters that drive and stems our free flow with walls, great and small…