Between issues, Ciel variable keeps an eye out for what’s happening here and there – under our sky and other skies. There’s always something happening in the wild and wonderful worlds of photography, image, and other forms of expression! Here, we share some high points of what’s being created and disseminated.
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Mads Nissen
[April 15, 2021] The photograph of the year chosen by World Press Photo, a huge competition that honours what has been published in preceding months, featured, for the 2021 edition, the pandemic. No surprise there. And yet, the winning image, unveiled on April 15, is a digest of all the pain in the world, sufferings […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Jonk
[December 8, 2020] The monumental ceiling, full of detail and appearing circular (is this a photographic effect?), overwhelms its glassed-in – and, it should be mentioned empty – space. It towers, barely held up by its single base: two walls and a column. This is the architectural work. The title labels it a “coffee shop” […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Edward Burtynsky
[November 24, 2020] After forty years recording the twisted relationships between humans and nature, Edward Burtynsky is thinking about his posterity. The former student at Ryerson University, in Toronto, is promising a huge donation to the university’s museum. The Ryerson Image Centre will therefore house the largest Burtynsky collection. The donation will be made as […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: doublespace photography
[September 8, 2020] In August, works by the Toronto architectural photography collective doublespace (Amanda Large and Younes Bounhar) received worldwide recognition. The collective’s images of the Horizon residential complex in the Utah mountains earned it two photography awards – jury and public – at the ArchitizerA+Awardscompetititon. Designed by the Halifax firm MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, the […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Dana Claxton
[June 30, 2020] It was practically impossible for the 10th Scotiabank Photography Award, with its $50,000 prize, not to go to a woman, as seven nominees out of the eleven were female. From the all-woman list of finalists, it was Dana Claxton, a Vancouver artist known for her themes of Indigenous beauty, the body, and […]
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Authors: Ciel variable
[28 May 2020] We’ve known for a few months that Vancouver artist Stan Douglas was chosen to represent Canada at the 59th Venice Biennale – the one that COVID-19 has postponed from 2021 to 2022. Now, we know that Reid Shier, director of the Polygon Gallery, in North Vancouver, will act as curator for the […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Yasuyoshi Chiba
[April 16, 2020] They say the world will never be the same again. But will gatherings – happy and less happy, carnivals and demonstrations – really disappear? Year after year, the World Press Photo competition takes stock of what brings life and death on the planetary scale. The 2020 edition, the winners of which have […]
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Authors: Ciel variable
[April 1, 2020] COVID-19 makes all cultural programs futile. MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image is nevertheless turned to the future, as “going forward with the next edition is a way of engaging in dialogue and interaction.” MOMENTA is therefore announcing that the 2021 edition will be organized by German curator Stefanie Hessler. The title of […]