By Louis Perreault
Opening a photobook means delving into a multidimensional offering. All of the images and the conceptual structure of their sequencing, as well as the materiality of the book and its graphic design, affect how we handle and perceive it. Our relationship with the works found within it is private, personal, individual – a relationship that is built over the long term, as we look at the book again and again…
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Betty Bogaert
[December 16, 2021] By Louis Perreault. Over the Vercors massif and the Haute-Maurienne valley roll heavy clouds, saturated with what may be tomorrow’s weather. Night falls slowly. In a hut overlooking a grassy expanse, tea leaves are dropped into boiling water, and the creaking of old…
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Josée Pedneault
[December 16, 2021] By Louis Perreault. Scientific accounts explaining the origin of the universe have always been confronted with beliefs arising from the times within which they were pronounced. Although the great laws of physics have probably elucidated the mystery of the creation of…
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Guillaume Tomasi
[December 15, 2021] By Louis Perreault. Certain events transform our lives, leaving indelible marks of their passage. The usual and the common are no longer what they used to be, and the people around us are suddenly thrown into a new light…
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Sarah Boutin
[December 9, 2021] By Louis Perreault Artist Sarah Boutin’s Prendre fin1 isn’t, properly speaking, a photobook; it’s more like a creative journal or an artist book. In addition to presenting series of photographs, it contains screen captures showing various research images and drawings made by Boutin, as well as poetry and philosophical reflections. Her artistic […]
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Louis Perreault
[December 7, 2021] By Louis Perreault. “Human experience is a memory instantly archived and digitized.”1 This statement sets the table for an adventure in the world of artist Antoine Giroux. At first, we resist the statement…
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Hubert Gaudreau
[November 30, 2021] By Louis Perreault. Two golden circles overlap, like a Venn diagram, on the front of Hubert Gaudreau’s softcover book Les autres imaginaires1. The theory of groups that Gaudreau proposes is indeed composed of interconnected elements. That is, as long as we are ready to enter these…
Authors: Louis Perreault
[November 30, 2021] By Louis Perreault. In Mosquitia, a coastal region in northeast Honduras, the “woman of the waters,” better known locally as liwa mairin, reigns. The daring men who dive into the depths of the Caribbean Sea to catch sea cucumbers and other fine edibles too often pay the price of her curse…
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Simon Émond
[November 23, 2021] By Louis Perreault. On the cover of Rebâtir le ciel, the terms associated with different gender identities are intermingled with those of astronomy. Androgyny, near-Earth object, gender dysphoria, black galaxy, lesbophobia, telluric planet, biological sex, and other radio-astronomical bodies form a sort of long poem…
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Jessica Auer
[November 23, 2021] By Louis Perreault. In Jessica Auer’s most recent film, Shore Power, one scene could act as prelude for Looking North. We see a large window, opening out to a calm body of water. After a moment, on the right, a huge ferry appears and then crosses the image very slowly…
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Anne-Marie Proulx
[November 23, 2021] By Louis Perreault. Stretching out on the black asphalt are rays of hard light that have pierced through the foliage of a white ash tree. Farther on, cobblestones, aged by several hundred years of foot, car, and horse traffic, suggest an old American city, which is not named…