[Fall 2019]
The artists brought together in this issue’s thematic section explore different issues related to the boundaries of sexual identity and their transgression. Personas, transvestism, and role mutations are core to these artists’ approaches, as they address various issues fundamental to establishing a society based on inclusion rather than on narrow concepts of identities and, by extension, cultures…
Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2019] By Jacques Doyon The artists brought together in this issue’s thematic section explore different issues related to the boundaries of sexual identity and their transgression. Personas, transvestism, and role mutations are core to these artists’ approaches, as they address various issues fundamental to establishing a society based on inclusion rather than on narrow […]
Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Portfolios
Artists: Erasmus Schröter, JJ Levine, Kent Monkman
[Fall 2019] The artists brought together in this issue’s thematic section explore different issues related to the boundaries of sexual identity and their transgression. Personas, transvestism, and role mutations are core to these artists’ approaches, as they address various issues fundamental to establishing a society based on inclusion rather than on narrow concepts of identities […]
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Authors: Dayna McLeod | Artists: Kent Monkman
[Fall 2019] By Dayna McLeod [Excerpt] Miss Chief Eagle Testickle is the muse and alter ego of Kent Monkman, a Cree artist who confronts the violent and systemic consequences of colonialism on Indigenous peoples in North America, with attention to Canada and Quebec. He often uses Miss Chief to playfully subvert dominant discourses of this […]
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Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: JJ Levine
[Fall 2019] By Charles Guilbert [Excerpt] What strikes the eye in JJ Levine’s work is a unique way of challenging gender norms. But when we look more closely, we discover that Levine wants to erase many borders – in both photography practice and in addressing subjects such as family, time, and space. Levine’s work is […]
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Artists: Erasmus Schröter
[Fall 2019] By Andreas Höll [Excerpt] Our image of the world has always been very fragile, and it has severely jolted on several occasions. Sigmund Freud, for example, cited the three insults to humanity that overturned our view of the world: Copernicus expected us to believe that we weren’t at the centre of the universe; […]
Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Essays
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Luigi Ghirri
[Fall 2019] By Stephen Horne [Excerpt] The Map and The Territory is a large and intricate exhibition of colour photographs by the late Italian artist Luigi Ghirri at the Jeu de Paume in Paris.1 No doubt the curator of the exhibition, James Lingwood, adopted this title following up on a note that Ghirri wrote in […]
Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Essays
Authors: Pierre Dessureault
[Fall 2019] By Pierre Dessureault [Excerpt] In a body of work accumulated over more than sixty years, Dave Heath (1931–2016), a Canadian photographer born in the United States, challenged the qualities of the photographic medium and its techniques. He constantly probed, through images, Montaigne’s dictum that “every man carries the entire form of the human […]
Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Essays
Authors: Jill Glessing | Artists: Carrie Mae Weems
[Fall 2019] By Jill Glessing [Excerpt] Violence runs through our lives, experienced directly or through media representations. We are subject to its power to varying degrees depending on our geographical location, race, class, gender, and access to high-speed internet. We are well acquainted with the variety of ways that humans inflict harm – whether physical, […]
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Authors: Sophie Bertrand | Artists: Martin Bureau
[Fall 2019] Par Sophie Bertrand [Excerpt] “The number of walls has tripled since the Cold War, and it has kept growing since 2001; it now consists of almost 30,000 km of armed borders.”1 This observation, made in 2013 by the researchers of the Chaire Raoul-Dandurand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques at the Université du Québec […]
Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Ansley West Rivers
[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Jepson Center, Telfair Museums, Savannah Du 10 mai au 3 novembre 2019 Par Ariane Noël de Tilly (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete […]
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Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Myriam Jacob-Allard
[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Dazibao, Montréal Du 7 février au 5 avril 2019 Par Charles Guilbert (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.] Purchase this issue
Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Guy Tillim
[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Museum of the Revolution Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris Commissaire : Agnès Sire Du 26 février au 2 juin 2019 Par Érika Nimis (French only) [See the printed or digital version of […]
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Authors: Clément Willer, Fanny Bieth | Artists: Denis Rioux
[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. La Castiglione, Montréal Du 27 février au 30 mars 2019 Par Fanny Bieth et Clément Willer (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.] […]
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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Andrea Szilasi
[Fall 2019] La Castiglione, Montreal April 3–May 11, 2019 By James D. Campbell [Excerpt] Intimate Portraits brought together works by four artists whose preoccupation with the human body is a longstanding one: Donigan Cumming, JJ Levine, George Steeves, and Andrea Szilasi. Their works interrogate the nature of portraiture itself. What constitutes a truly intimate image? […]
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Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Barbara Breitenfellner
[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France Du 2 mai au 13 juillet 2019 Par Michèle Cohen Hadria (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.] Purchase this […]
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Authors: Jean-Michel Quirion | Artists: Michelle Bui
[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Parisian Laundry, Montréal Du 18 avril au 25 mai 2019 Par Jean-Michel Quirion (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.] Purchase this issue
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Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Steve Leroux
[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Occurrence, centre d’art et d’essai, Montréal Du 9 mai au 15 juin 2019 Par Franck Michel (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.] […]
Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Book Reviews
Authors: Guillaume Tomasi | Artists: Birthe Piontek
[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. New York, Gnomic Book 2019, 112 pages Par Guillaume Tomasi (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.] Purchase this issue
[Fall 2019] [Excerpt] David McMillan, Growth and Decay, Göttingen, Steidl Verlag, 2019, 260 p. Guillaume Simoneau, Murder, Londres, Mack, 2019, 96 p. Greg Girard, Tokyo Yokusaka, 1976-1983, Toronto, Magenta Foundation, 2019, 160 p. Louis Perreault, Les affluents, Montréal/Québec, Les Éditions du renard/VU, 2019, 96 p. Kim Waldron, Une autre femme_ Another Woman, New York, Galerie […]
Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Interviews
Authors: Audrey Genois, Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2019] An interview by Jacques Doyon [Excerpt] Audrey Genois has been the executive director of MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image (formerly Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal) since 2016. She was assistant curator at the Galerie de l’UQAM from 2002 to 2016. Over fifteen years, she organized more than sixty exhibitions and ten […]
[Winter 2020]
In this issue’s thematic section, we look at collective action in society. Against a background of social conflict and war, the artists evoke the impact of collective actions on the common good by re-examining and recontextualizing images plucked from the mass of media images that form our relationship with the world.
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Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Winter 2020] In the thematic section of this issue, we take a look at collective action in society. Against a background of social conflict and war, the artists evoke the impact of collective actions on the common good by scrutinizing multitudes of media images that help to form our relationship with the world. Through re-examination […]
[Winter 2020] In this issue’s thematic section, we look at collective action in society. Against a background of social conflict and war, the artists evoke the impact of collective actions on the common good by re-examining and recontextualizing images plucked from the mass of media images that form our relationship with the world. DOMINIQUE BLAIN […]
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Authors: Louise Déry | Artists: Dominique Blain
[Winter 2020] By Louise Déry [Excerpt] As Dominique Blain’s exhibition Déplacements was being presented in Paris,<sup>1</sup> Venice was suffering a flood so terrible that we were once again anguished about the possibility of seeing this incomparable treasure of world heritage disappear. Not so long ago, it was Notre-Dame de Paris that was severely damaged, this […]
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Authors: Alain Paiement | Artists: Alain Paiement
[Winter 2020] [Excerpt] Demonstrations. From Occupy Wall Street to Extinction Rebellion actions, popular resistance demonstrations have become an integral part of international news over the last decade. We are almost accustomed to seeing, over and over, spectacular images of uprisings against dictators, altercations among citizens, identity-related confrontations, movements of crowds in war and in desperate […]
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Authors: Gisele Amantea, Jacques Doyon | Artists: Gisele Amantea
[Winter 2020] An interview by Jacques Doyon [Excerpt] Jacques Doyon: What is the origin of the work Aleppo, Syria December 17, 2016? How did the idea emerge? Why Syria? And what prompted you to work from an existing image of a disaster? Gisele Amantea: I was invited by curator Emily Falvey to participate in the […]
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Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Mélissa Pilon
[Winter 2020] By Claudia Polledri [Excerpt] What is a crowd, and how can a photograph teach us about this protagonist of twentieth-century history? In her photobook Foules, Mélissa Pilon underlines the visual complexity of crowds as living organisms, casting an original gaze upon them. In this work, defined as photojournalism, Pilon aims to offer a […]
Ciel variable 114 - MASSES | MONUMENTS | Essays
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés | Artists: Stephen Gill
[Winter 2020] Par Alexis Desgagnés [Excerpt] On the threshold of my teenage years, my greatest passion was to observe birds. I spent countless hours, binoculars hung around my neck, prowling slowly, silently, through woods and meadows, looking out for a rare gem! When I was thirteen, a camera, a gift from my stepmother, replaced the […]
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Authors: Laurie Milner | Artists: Geneviève Cadieux
[Winter 2020] Par Laurie Milner [Excerpt] Is it the greyness of the April afternoon that makes the Rene Blouin Gallery seem so luminous as I enter Geneviève Cadieux’s exhibition Ghost Ranch?1 I had heard the buzz among artists and colleagues that this was a show to be seen – a virtuoso production by an august […]