Biennials & Co. – Ciel variable Magazine

Art Souterrain – Jérôme Delgado

Authors: Jérôme Delgado | Artists: Andrew Rovenko, Barbara Iweins, Blandine Soulage, Caroline Hayeur, Caroline Monnet, Celine Lecomte, Éloi Perreault, Geneviève Thibault, Isabelle Hayeur, Jacynthe Carrier, Jeanne Castonguay-Carrière

For its 17th edition, the Art Souterrain festival has explored our habitats — whether real or mental, intimate or environmental. With photography featured extensively, the festival paints a global portrait that is not always positive but remains tinged with hope. Read here what we thought about it.

Capture – Karen Henry

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Authors: Karen Henry

An annual celebration of image culture, the Capture festival features a range of exhibitions in and around Vancouver. In this article, our contributor Karen Henry discusses a selection of projects from the 2024 edition.

Circulation(s) – Érika Nimis

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Authors: Erika Nimis

[June 5th 2024] by Érika Nimis. The Circulation(s) festival in Paris has been showcasing emerging talents in photography for the past thirteen years. Érika Nimis attended the 14th edition. Read her first-hand account here.

Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles – Alain Depocas

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[December 21, 2023] By Alain Depocas. Year after year, the always-stunning Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles offers a heterogeneous program without any significant thematic grouping. Nevertheless, certain exhibitions stand out. In 2023, this was the case for Ne m’oublie pas, a presentation of images from Jean-Marie Donat’s collection,1 and Entre nos murs – Téhéran, Iran 1956–2014, composed of photographs found in an abandoned house…

MOMENTA – Jean Gagnon

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Authors: Jean Gagnon

[October 4, 2023] By Jean Gagnon. Masquerades: Drawn to Metamorphosis is the title of the 18th edition of MOMENTA Biennale de l’image – a title full of promise, as the notion evokes the possibility of many carnivals. Masquerade is a device used in the visual arts, photography, film, theatre, and dance. There was once a pseudoscience, physiognomy, that sought to discern human character types by associating them with the features of animal faces, thus bringing the invisible into visibility…

PHOS, 10th anniversary – Baptiste Grison

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Authors: Baptiste Grison

[May 31, 2023] By Baptiste Grison. Anyone who has been a regular visitor to the springtime PHOS Photo + art festival in Matane over the years will have noted the characteristics that have become its trademark: a program that’s plentiful and wide-ranging (both physically throughout the town and in content), taking risks and liberties, and a generous showcase for photography students from the local college, who get an opportunity to show their work publicly for the first time…

Venice Biennale 2022 – Ariane Noël de Tilly

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Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly

[October 5 2022] By Ariane Noël de Tilly. When she wrote her children’s book The Milk of Dreams, the Mexican surrealist artist Leonora Carrington certainly had no idea that one day the book would become a major source of inspiration for the exhibition curator Cecilia Alemani, who borrowed its title for the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale…

Les Rencontres d’Arles – Julie Martin

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Authors: Julie Martin

[October 5 2022] By Julie Martin. The exhibition A Feminist Avant-Garde. Photographs and Performances from the 1970s, organized by curator Gabriele Schor and presented at Arles during the 2022 Rencontres de la photographie, features photographs and videos from the collection of the Verbund Foundation, situated in Vienna…