[Spring-Summer 2018]
The works brought together in this issue look back at significant phenomena and events in recent history to bring them back to memory and assess their current relevance. These are prolific works, with multiple iterations, that take forms as complex as their subjects: an entire field of artistic practices, pioneering works and pivotal moments, and the multiplication of cultural artefacts that are subject to intense ideological manipulations.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
The works brought together in this issue look back at events in relatively recent history that have reverberated to the present day. These are prolific works, with multiple iterations, embodied in artistic forms and processes that reflect the complexity of their subjects: the mobility of fragments of the Berlin Wall, the exhibition at the Christian […]
[Spring-Summer 2019] The works brought together in this issue look back at significant phenomena and events in recent history to bring them back to memory and assess their current relevance. These are prolific works, with multiple iterations, that take forms as complex as their subjects: an entire field of artistic practices, pioneering works and pivotal […]
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Portfolios
Authors: Jill Glessing | Artists: Blake Fitzpatrick, Vid Ingelevics
December 1, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — Movement is elemental to existence. Since we made our slow crawl from sea to land we’ve been “on the road” seeking better environments. But another force – territorialism – counters that drive and stems our free flow with walls, great and small…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Charles Gagnon, Emmanuelle Léonard
November 17, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — At Expo 67, a huge celebration of human progress and great festival of the image in all of its technological and expressive possibilities, the Christian Pavilion designed by Charles Gagnon offered a counterpoint to the event’s sea of triumphant optimism….
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Portfolios
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Carol Sawyer
November 10, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — For twenty years, Vancouver artist Carol Sawyer has constructed a speculative history around her character Natalie Brettschneider, through whom she has introduced the art practices of a number of previously overlooked artists who developed within alternative circles…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Essays
Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Akram Zaatari
November 3, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — According to Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari, photography is expressed in many ways. This is the message of his exhibition, Against Photography: An Annotated History of the Arab Image Foundation, a kaleidoscopic journey, through stories and images…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Essays
Authors: Marie-Josée Jean | Artists: Jonathan Monk
Octobre 26, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — Exhibition views have taken on an increasingly important role since museum specialists began featuring them in exhibitions. Originally placed under glass, following a documentary protocol introduced via museology, this form of documentation has gradually come to be displayed on walls, occasionally ascribed the status of artwork…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Essays
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Angela Grauerholz, Chih-Chien Wang, Gabor Szilasi, Luc Courchesne, Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Michel Campeau, Raymonde April, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Serge Clément, Yan Giguère, Yann Pocreau
Octobre 19, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — This round-robin exhibition featured powerful and evocative images of the original site of the recently abandoned Royal Victoria Hospital. Eleven Montreal artists were invited by the RBC Art and Heritage Centre of the McGill University Health Centre to tour the original site…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala
Octobre 12, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — During a ten-year period that began in 1848, the rush to California in the mad hope of striking it rich was intertwined with the burgeoning ability to make a living through the new technology of photography…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Geneviève Chevalier | Artists: Daniel Canty
October 5, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bill Viola
September 28, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Natascha Niederstrass
September 21, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 2018] — Over the last several years, at exhibitions in Montreal and elsewhere, Montreal-based photographic artist Natascha Niederstrass has earned a strong reputation for informing her work with forensic-photography aesthetics and infusing it with a full measure of chilling, even spine-tingling, premises and implications…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Janie Julien-Fort
Septembre 14, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Masako Miyazaki
September 7, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 2018] — Masako Miyazaki’s photography show titled A Tree complements her poetry. Some of the images were made in forests, fields, and landscapes on Montreal’s south shore, and others were made in Japan. Whether in Japan or Quebec, the landscape remains Miyazaki’s constant point of reference…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Malick Sidibé
August 31, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Robert Anderson | Artists: Kotama Bouabane
August 24, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 2018] — If you think the title of Laotian-born, Canadian-raised artist Kotama Bouabane’s recent show at VU, We’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slow, sounds suspiciously like a lyric from a bad pop song, you’d be right. The title is from the song “Kokomo” by the Beach Boys…
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Mathieu Asselin
August 17, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Book Reviews
Authors: François Brunet
August 10, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Essays
Authors: Louis Perreault
July 31, 2017 [originally published in CV109 in Spring 2018] — First, there was a fox. A few strollers noticed him, but he evaded a closer look by disappearing into the weeds of a post-industrial lot in Montreal East. I quickly took a liking to the animal and made him a sort of personal totem…