Ciel variable 130 – Plants and Gardens
Issue 130: an artistic and sensory exploration of the plant world, blending observation, ecology, and poetic quest, through the works of Sara Angelucci, Sara A. Tremblay, and Frédéric Lavoie.
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS
Editorial: Listening to the living
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Frédéric Lavoie, Sara A. Tremblay, Sara Angelucci
[Fall 2025] Editorial by Jacques Doyon In this issue, the plant world is under attentive investigation. Garden flowers and plants, and the terrains and territories around them, are examined, studied, recorded, sometimes manipulated, in an attempt to capture the living microcosm that they are home to. Fruits, flowers, leaves, and branches – and insects, fungi, […]
Thematic presentation: Plants and Gardens
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Portfolios
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Frédéric Lavoie, Sara A. Tremblay, Sara Angelucci
An artistic exploration of the plant world through photography and the close observation of gardens, plants, and ecosystems, highlighting the relationship between nature, ecology, and human experience.”
Sara Angelucci, Nocturnal Botanical ⎻ Sara Knelman, Pure Beads of Life
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Portfolios
Authors: Sara Knelman | Artists: Sara Angelucci
Sara Angelucci plonge au cœur du végétal avec des compositions vibrantes qui célèbrent la vie, explorant botanique, écologie et relation sensorielle au monde après le deuil.
Sara A.Tremblay, Poids, plumes ⎻ Charlotte Lalou Rousseau, Clearing Away the Rocks
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Portfolios
Authors: Charlotte Lalou Rousseau | Artists: Sara A. Tremblay
With Poids, plumes, Sara A. Tremblay explores intimacy, nature, and grief through photography, performance, and installation, navigating the cycles of life and regeneration.
Frédéric Lavoie, De visu ⎻ Josianne Poirier, Records of Encounters with the Living
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Portfolios
Authors: Josianne Poirier | Artists: Frédéric Lavoie
Frédéric Lavoie explores the plant world as a living ecosystem through projections and image notebooks, blending observation with naturalistic inventories.
AI and Humanity – Jessica Ragazzini
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Essays, Focus
Authors: Jessica Ragazzini
[Fall 2025] AI and Humanity: Toward a New World of Poetics by Jessica Ragazzini [EXCERPT] In all subjectivity: The world according to AI is a brilliant but paradoxical exhibition – it claims to scrutinize AI while it exposes, above all, human fears of being surpassed, copied, or rendered obsolete. What I perceive is a humanity […]
Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Luminous Imprints – Pierre Dessureault
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Essays, Focus
Authors: Pierre Dessureault
[Fall 2025] Luminous Imprints by Pierre Dessureault [EXCERPT] Since 1994, Marie-Jeanne Musiol has been engaged in a unique exploration of the porous borders between how science and art represent nature. Most of the images in the exhibition I See Stars in the Deep Dark were from the series Bodies of Light and were made between […]
Contemporary Photography in Poland – Amélie Laurence Fortin
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Essays, Focus
Authors: Amélie Laurence Fortin
[Fall 2025] A Pink Cloud in a Grey Sky by Amélie Laurence Fortin [EXCERPT] “Our choices are not neutral; we are as vulnerable and sensitive to the effects of images as anyone else.” — Kamila Bondar and Łukasz Rusznica Introduced by a short wall text on the challenge of subjectivity and the importance of looking, […]
Sébastien Cliche, Fluctuation du semblable – Jean-Michel Quirion
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-Michel Quirion | Artists: Sébastien Cliche
[Fall 2025] Fluctuation du semblable by Jean-Michel Quirion Occurrence, espace d’art et d’essai contemporains, Montréal 18.01.2025 — 15.03.2025 [EXCERPT] In Fluctuation du semblable, a body of work presented in a solo exhibition at Occurrence, we were abruptly immersed by the Montreal artist Sébastien Cliche into the elsewhere of a speculative dehumanized society. The gallery, usually […]
Laure Prouvost, Oma-je – Marcus Miller
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Marcus Miller | Artists: Laure Prouvost
[Fall 2025] Oma-je by Marcus Miller PHI, Montréal 01.11.202 — 09.03.2025 [EXCERPT] Step into Laure Prouvost’s bohemian tea room and enjoy a “cuppa.” No pinkies-up here. This room, crowded with the detritus of departed loved ones, is at once claustrophobic, disorienting, and strangely familiar. Although it seems to be in a state of great disarray, […]
1985. Image-Worlds – Hélène Samson
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Hélène Samson
[Fall 2025] 1985. Image-Worlds by Hélène Samson VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal 27.03.2025 — 21.06.2025 [EXCERPT] The VOX centre celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 2025. This seemed a good opportunity to devote an exhibition to the decade in which it was born. More than seventy photographic and video works by thirty artists, along with […]
Jeff Thomas, Stories My Father Couldn’t Tell Me – Sophie Guignard
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sophie Guignard | Artists: Jeff Thomas
[Fall 2025] Stories My Father Couldn’t Tell Me by Sophie Guignard Galerie d’art d’Ottawa 19.10.2024 — 16.03.2025 [EXCERPT] The exhibition Stories My Father Couldn’t Tell Me: Jeff Thomas Origin surveyed forty years of images by Jeff Thomas, a member of the Onondaga Nation. Following a car accident in 1979, which left him with a permanent […]
Thomas Kneubühler, The Dividing Line – Sophie Mangado
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sophie Mangado | Artists: Thomas Kneubühler, Thomas Kneubühler
[Fall 2025] The Dividing Line by Sophie Mangado Optica – Centre d’art contemporain, Montréal 17.01.2025 — 29.03.2025 [EXCERPT] Thomas Kneubühler, a Swiss-born photographer and video artist living in Montreal, is interested in spaces to which access is limited. He designed the installation The Dividing Line to fit within one of the galleries at Optica. Immediately […]
Lorna Bauer, Sunday is Violet – Fanny Bieth
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Fanny Bieth | Artists: Lorna Bauer
[Fall 2025] Sunday is Violet by Fanny Bieth Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal 27.02.2025 — 05.04.2025 [EXCERPT] Presented in the Montreal premises of Galerie Nicolas Robert, the exhibition Sunday is Violet featured a series of works made in 2024 by Lorna Bauer, who combines photography, sculpture, and installation in her practice. Flowers were central to the […]
Léna Mill-Reuillard, Double Instantanéité – Sylvain Campeau
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Exhibition reviews
Artists: Léna Mill-Reuillard
[Fall 2025] Double Instantanéité by Sylvain Campeau La Bande Vidéo, Québec 11.01.2025 — 9.02.2025 [EXCERPT] Anyone who has visited La Bande Vidéo will have noticed that its gallery is not very big. Once viewers enter, they are right on top of the works on display. This rapid immersion can be a pitfall: the artist must […]
Leyla Majeri, Si tu ne te souviens pas, invente – Nathalie Côté
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Nathalie Côté
[Fall 2025] Si tu ne te souviens pas, invente by Nathalie Côté VU, Québec 08.03.2025 — 20.04.2025 [EXCERPT] The installation that Leyla Majeri presented at VU stood out for her aesthetic, her approach, and her method. Composed of a montage of short film sequences and four abstract sepia-tone photographic series, the exhibition was the result […]
Guy Delisle, Pour une fraction de seconde – Michel Hardy-Vallée
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Lectures, Readings
Authors: Michel Hardy-Vallée | Artists: Guy Delisle
[Fall 2025] Pour une fraction de seconde by Michel Hardy-Vallée Paris, Delcourt, 2024, 202 pages [EXCERPT] For a work to be called a photograph, it must contain at least one image. Add a second one and you have a comic strip. And with a third, you have a film if you make them scroll by […]
Bertrand Carrière, Tout ceci est impossible – Franck Michel
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Readings
Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Bertrand Carrière
[Fall 2025] Tout ceci est impossible by Franck Michel Montréal, Cinémathèque québécoise et Somme Toute, 2025, 312 pages [EXCERPT] Since his earliest days as a photographer, Bertrand Carrière has maintained a close relationship with cinema. He began his career as a set photographer and devoted his first book, Témoin de l’ombre (1995), to that craft. […]
Serge Tisseron, Le jour où j’ai tué mon frère – Christelle Proulx
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Readings
Authors: Christelle Proulx | Artists: Serge Tisseron
[Fall 2025] Le jour où j’ai tué mon frère by Christelle Proulx Marcillac-Vallon, Lamaindonne, 2025, 96 pages [EXCERPT] In this short book, Serge Tisseron reflects on memory, photography, and the generation of images by artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including an anecdote in which he remembers his own past. Tisseron, a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, has […]
Jeff Khonsary, Fillip, Image Index (2005–24) – An interview by Jacques Doyon
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Entrevues, paroles
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Jeff Khonsary
Dans cette entrevue, nous plongeons au cœur d’ Image Index (2004–25), un impressionnant répertoire visuel des éditions Fillip. Dirigé par Jeff Khonsary, le volume de 464 pages rassemble 778 images publiées sur vingt ans, accompagnées de légendes et notes bibliographiques. L’ouvrage dévoile l’évolution de Fillip, où texte et image dialoguent, et invite à repenser la manière dont nous lisons, voyons et comprenons la photographie et l’art contemporain.