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: Denis Farley
[September 7, 2021] A period of staying home, barely leaving the cocoon, can be a fertile time. At least, experienced photographer Denis Farley seems to have taken full advantage. He talks about it in an interview on the platform Ffoto, after more than a year of COVID-19 restrictions. “I hadn’t much choice but to concentrate […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Michel Huneault
[April 20, 2021] The dozen images don’t cover a year of the pandemic, but they convey its tone amply: beyond the tragedies and the fears, life finds a way to continue. Upon invitation from the McCord Museum, photographer Michel Huneault threw himself into the fray, as they say. Yes, he had access to intensive care […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur
[January 21, 2021] As reclusive as most of us, yet prolific, Isabelle Hayeur began 2021 by producing video after video, available for view on the Vimeo platform. The context of the pandemic and the accompanying health measures first inspired her to make the foggy Hygieia, named after the goddess of health and cleanliness, then the […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Amélie Laurence Fortin
[September 16, 2020] Canadian Artist Amélie Laurence Fortin was supposed to spend all twelve months of 2020 outside home, having a sojourn at Quebec’s studio in Berlin and making her way through Europe from east to west. But she didn’t foresee the springtime lockdown. Stuck in Warsaw, her bad luck turned to good: she had […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Daniel Iregui
[June 3, 2020] New-media artist Daniel Iregui was to have had an exhibition in May at a Montreal public space. The cancelled project did not give rise to a virtual exhibition. However, it led to a new creation that explicitly shows what is different between real gatherings and their current manifestation, videoconferences: a new awareness […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Adad Hannah
[June 1, 2020] During the pandemic, the Musée d’art de Joliette undertaken a project called Quarantined Museum, a blog put online and hosted by the museum’s team to stay in touch with its community. The idea is to solicit exchanges and reactions by the public (posts, creations, etc.) around different themes related to the museum’s […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Pablo Ortíz Monasterio
[27 May 2020] The Aperture Foundation, a New York publisher and exhibition centre, has published online interviews with twelve photographers on lockdown here and there: in and around New York, as well as Istanbul, Dhaka, and Algiers. Each gives her or his impressions about the pandemic and its after effects. Bangladeshi Tahia Farhin Haque feels, […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Matteo Ceschi
[May 15, 2020] With the support of the Italian gallery Artespressione, photographer Matteo Ceschi has published an online diary featuring a black-and-white overview of Milan, one of the first major cities to have fallen under the sombre reality of the novel coronavirus. The images are of silence, isolation, stillness. The series, titled Winter Midsummer, also […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Marilou Lyonnais A
[May 13, 2020] Is it possible to “fold”websites? And what can we make of an “offline digital site”? In confinement like all of us, Marilou Lyonnais A. wants to endow the immaterial with a material condition. She is one of the ten artists in Parallel Lines, a program of virtual artist residencies set up in […]