[Summer 2010] Bombs opening up craters in streets, training camps that look like urban neighbourhoods, media perceptions of the war in Afghanistan, a look back at the riot as background for an urban renewal project… and images that use representation and fiction to try to convey these realities. EDITORIAL PORTFOLIOS FOCUS EXHIBITIONS VOICES […]
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Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Spring 2010] by Jacques Doyon This issue looks at the representation of conflicts and wars. Whether they are distant battles, terrorist attacks, or riots taking place in the heart of our cities, their communication to the public is often dominated by spectacularization and slanted views. The artists whose works brought together here address situations that […]
Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Portfolios
Artists: Emanuel Licha, Sophie Ristelhueber, Stan Douglas
Bombs opening up craters in streets, training camps that look like urban neighbourhoods, media perceptions of the war in Afghanistan, a look back at the riot as background for an urban renewal project… and images that use representation and fiction to try to convey these realities. SOPHIE RISTELHUEBER Eleven Blowups Poetics of Facts Jacinto Lageira […]
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Authors: Jacinto Lageira | Artists: Sophie Ristelhueber
May 26, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — In Eleven Blowups, Sophie Ristelhueber uses elements of her own photographs to re-create images of bomb craters produced by the media. In showing the traces of destruction, these images, true and false at once, portray not the specificity of a single story and place but the experience of collapse.
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Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Emanuel Licha
May 24, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — These two works by Emanuel Licha are based on his interest in urban settings re-created for police or military training camps. The intention is to reveal the fully operational role of fiction in the reality of conflicts and in the composition of our portrayals of the foreign.
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Authors: Amish Morrell | Artists: Allyson Mitchell, Graeme Smith, Louie Palu, Richard Johnson, Stephen Andrews, Suzanne Opton
May 19, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — The theme of the exhibition War at a Distance, presented by the TPW Gallery in Toronto, was media representations of war in the context of debates over the Canadian presence in Afghanistan.
Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Essays, Portfolios
Authors: Karen Henry | Artists: Stan Douglas
May 16, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — The impressive piece of public art addresses the very nature of public space. It is named after the two streets that cross at the north corner of the Woodward’s building, on which the artwork is installed. The image inhabits space like a sculpture, grandly overlooking the public and private courtyards of the new complex in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: René Viau | Artists: Gregory Sholette, John Jordan
May 12, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
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Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde | Artists: Chuck Samuels
May 9, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
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Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Eija-Liisa Ahtila
May 5, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
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Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Nelson Henricks
May 2, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
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Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: David Hoffos
April 28, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — Despite the impending calamities hidden in many of the works in Scenes from the House Dream, David Hoffos’s gathering of twenty installations into one, dark, enveloping space feels warm and fuzzy. True, a monster lurks under a boat, vapours rise in a noisy forest, and snow drifts through the open windows of a deserted house, but the exhibition curated by Shirley Madill remains appealing and enchanting.
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Authors: Jean Gagnon | Artists: José Carlos Martinat
April 25, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
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Authors: Matthieu Brouillard | Artists: BrassaÏ, Claude Cahun
April 21, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
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Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde
April 18, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur
April 14, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Raymonde April
April 6, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — Why is it that Raymonde April’s art always occupies the foreground of my consciousness when I think about photography – about what it is and what it can be ? Even as flashier and more graphically cinematographic photography rules the proverbial roost in the art world right now, April, a maverick artist, has long since staked out her territory and made it her wholly and uniquely her own.
Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Interviews
Authors: Claude Baillargeon
March 30, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — The complete interview with Ann & Harry Malcolmson is now available online. For the past twenty years, they have dedicated themselves to the study and collecting of photography. With a particular interest in historical material drawn from the medium’s diverse aesthetic history, they have assembled one of Canada’s most distinctive collections.