Geoffrey James, The Lethbridge Project – Jacques Doyon

Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Portfolios
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Geoffrey James

[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary The Lethbridge Project looks at both the city and nature, and at their transformations. Geoffrey James evokes the way in which landscape, whether in the heart of the city or […]

Nicole Jolicoeur, Images d’une ville. Corps de l’image

Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Portfolios
Authors: Nicole Jolicoeur | Artists: Nicole Jolicoeur

[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Guy Lafontaine, Home Sweet Home – Suzie Larivée, Grandeur et misère du paysage urbain

Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Portfolios
Authors: Suzie Larivée | Artists: Guy Lafontaine

[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Since 1995, Guy Lafontaine has been working on a series of photographs examining transitional zones on the border of residential and industrial districts, mainly in neighbourhoods on the outskirts of […]

Angela Grauerholz, Sententia I-LXII and Schriftbilder – Gary Michael Dault

Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Spring 2000] by Gary Michael Dault Power Plant, Toronto from December 11, 1999, to February 20, 2000. Given the scope and ambition of the two photo-works that Angela Grauerholz presented recently at Toronto’s Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (which extend the inventiveness of her photo-installations for Documenta IX and the 1995 Carnegie International), it is […]

Sylvie Readman, Convergences élémentaires – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Sylvie Readman

[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Optica, Montréal du 29 octobre au 4 décembre 1999

Edmond Couchot, La technologie dans l’art. De la photographie à la réalité virtuelle – Christine Desrochers

Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers, Edmond Couchot

[Spring 2000] This text was originally published in French. No translation is available. Edmond Couchot, Nîmes, Éditions Jacqueline Chambon coll. Rayon Photo, 1998, 271 pages.

Elsewhere … Nowhere

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

by Jacques Doyon Travel is an inherent aspect of contemporary civilization. Whatever the distance, we have to see other places. We are all tourists, in one way or another, always foreigners to someone or some society, which we observe with mixed feelings of curiosity, empathy, rejection, or fear. The image has become the heart of […]

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE

[Summer 2000]

Portfolios : WANDA KOOP, XAVIER RIBAS, ALAIN CHAGNON.
Focus : Une esthétique de chiffonnier (le photographe itinérant).
Reviews : Serge Clément – Persona, André Martin – Mes modèles. Autoportraits, Dominique Baqué – La photographie plasticienne. Un art paradoxal, Diana Thorneycroft: The Body, Its Lesson and Camouflage.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Olivier Asselin, Robin Laurence, Xavier Ribas, Robert Graham, Mona Hakim, Sylvain Campeau, Christine Desrochers, Martha Langford.

Une esthétique de chiffonnier (le photographe itinérant) – Olivier Asselin

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Essays
Authors: Olivier Asselin | Artists: Eugène Atget

[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Asselin recalls the various modem figures of the walker and the modalities of their aesthetic contemplation. The photographer bears a resemblance to the Baudelairean figure of the flâneur, torn between […]

Wanda Koop – Robin Laurence, See Everything/See Nothing

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Portfolios
Authors: Robin Laurence | Artists: Wanda Koop

[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Best known as a painter, Wanda Koop is also a gifted videographer who produces scrolls of video stills as well as large-scale installations combining video projections and painting. Many of […]

Xavier Ribas, Un divertissement idéal

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Portfolios
Authors: Xavier Ribas | Artists: Xavier Ribas

[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Our leisure activities are less and less distinguishable from models of productivity. Organized leisure has tentacles. It is probably to escape this logic that people meet spontaneously in less domesticated […]

Alain Chagnon – Robert Graham, De villes en déserts: Alain Chagnon’s Recent Road Work

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Portfolios
Authors: Robert Graham | Artists: Alain Chagnon

[Summer 2000] by Robert Graham In June of 1998, fifty-year-old Quebec photographer Alain Chagnon undertook a journey. As a man and as a photographer, he was propelled in flight from the “here” of home in search of what must be found away and somewhere else. From this particular corner of the continent, he set out […]

Serge Clément, Persona – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Serge Clément

[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Occurrence du 16 mai au 18 juin 2000

André Martin, Mes modèles. Autoportraits – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: André Martin

[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal du 11 mai au 13 août 2000

Dominique Baqué, La photographie plasticienne. Un art paradoxal – Christine Desrochers

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers, Dominique Baqué

[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, éditions du Regard, 1998, 326 pages.

Diana Thorneycroft: The Body, Its Lesson and Camouflage – Martha Langford

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Book Reviews
Authors: Diana Thorneycroft, Martha Langford

[Summer 2000] Meeka Walsh, editor, with contributions by Mary Ann Caws, Robert Enright, and Vicki Goldberg Winnipeg: Bain & Cox Diana Thorneycroft: The Body, Its Lesson and Camouflage is the first major book by the Winnipeg artist whose psychic explorations have been seen and much discussed in Canada for over a decade. All of Thorneycroft’s […]

Everyday Objects

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Fall 2000] by Jacques Doyon The way we glance at objects in a familiar environment could be the connection between the photographic works assembled for this issue. Whether these objects are contained within the household, a workplace, or a small business, they inhabit and condition our spaces and ways of life. For Nicolas Baier, the […]

Ciel variable 52 – EVERYDAY OBJECTS

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS

[Fall 2000]

Portfolios : NICOLAS BAIER, RUDD VAN EMPEL, STORE |MARKET.
Focus : Reading Photographs: Playing the Visual Literacy Game.
Reviews : Mouvance et mutation – Marian Penner Bancroft, By Land and, Michel Lamothe – Même les cigales dormaient.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Susan Close, Emmanuel Galland, Mariona Fernández, Howard Ursuliak, François Dion, Mona Hakim, Bernard Lamarche.

Reading Photographs: Playing the Visual Literacy Game – Susan Close

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Essays
Authors: Susan Close

[Fall 2000] by Susan Close A knowledge of photography is just as important as that of the alphabet. The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of the use of camera and pen alike. –Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 1923 But What Does It Mean to Read a Photograph? Because of its representational and documentary qualities, photography has, […]

Nicolas Baier – Emmanuel Galland, De la peinture par téléphone

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS, Complete Archives
Authors: Emmanuel Galland | Artists: Nicolas Baier

[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page Summary (Free) arbiter, colourist, stain-ist, material-ist, collagist, designer (of interiors), assembler-operator – not to mention cameraman-editor – N.B. is a visual artist in the current sense of the term used for […]

Rudd van Empel – Mariona Fernández, The Office

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Authors: Mariona Fernández | Artists: Ruud van Empel

[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary The Office, produced using digital photo-editing techniques, arises from the unreal. Ruud van Empel combines many of the avant-garde influences that have liberated photography from its obligation to the truth […]

Store | Market : A Sadness without the Object – Howard Ursuliak

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Authors: Howard Ursuliak | Artists: Howard Ursuliak

[Fall 2000] For the past fifteen years, I have been interested in the material agency of both documentary photography and the visual display aesthetics of public advertising, and in how these two forms come together in configurations of urban space to mediate a dialectic of appearances between public and private realms of experience. by Howard […]

Mouvance et mutation – François Dion

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: François Dion | Artists: Greg Staats, Ramona Ramlochand

[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine, Ottawa du 19 mai au 17 septembre 2000

Marian Penner Bancroft, By Land and Sea (Prospect and Refuge) – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Marian Penner Bancroft

[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. By Land and Sea (Prospect and Refuge) Galerie de l’UQAM du 8 septembre au 7 octobre 2000

Michel Lamothe, Même les cigales dormaient – Bernard Lamarche

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Book Reviews
Authors: Bernard Lamarche | Artists: Michel Lamothe

[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Shifting and conflicting states

Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Winter 2000-2001] by Jacques Doyon Identity is a precarious notion, constantly being redefined, at the intersection of many dimensions of belonging and identification. It is a self-definition, by and through the view of others. Identity is always a question of positionings and negotiations. The part of it that may seem to be inherent or original […]

Ciel variable 53 – IDENTITIES

Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES

[Winter 2000-2001]

Portfolios : ÈVE K. TREMBLAY, PATRICK FAIBENBAUM, ROSALIE FAVELL
Focus : La mémoire et le double
Reviews : Open Studio: William Eakin, Alexa Wright – I, Fiction ou d’autres histoires de la photographie
Authors : Jacques Doyon, François Paré, Lyne Crevier, Gregory Salzman, Ryan Rice & Barry Ace, Susan Close, Dayna McLeod, Sylvain Campeau

La mémoire et le double – François Paré

Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES | Essays
Authors: François Paré | Artists: Raymonde April

[Winter 2000-2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary This text, the product of parallel readings of Mercure, a novel by Amélie Nothomb, and L’avenir de la mémoire, an essay by Fernand Dumont, explores the tight links between identity, […]

Ève K.Tremblay, L’Éducation sentimentale – Lyne Crevier, Vivre en soi

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Authors: Lyne Crevier | Artists: Eve K. Tremblay

[Winter 2000-2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary The photographer Ève K. Tremblay has created an allegorical work, reminiscent of “tales with a moral,” in which nymphets and mature women swarm busily to embellish life. The places chosen […]

Patrick Faigenbaum, Brême – Gregory Salzman, Realism with a Human Face

Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES | Portfolios
Authors: Gregory Salzman | Artists: Patrick Faigenbaum

[Winter 2000-2001] This project marks the first time that Faigenbaum photographed subjects with which he felt no special personal identification or emotional connection. The nature of the assignment and his lack of familiarity with the place prompted him to adopt a novel way of working that was more informal and impromptu than in previous works. […]