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Angela Grauerholz, Sirens, Heroines, and Unique Women – Ioana Dragomir et Cheryl Simon

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Authors: Cheryl Simon, Ioana Dragomir | Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Summer 2026] Sirens, Heroines, and Unique Women by Ioana Dragomir and Cheryl Simon [EXCERPT] This collaborative essay inspired by Angela Grauerholz’s book The Hundred Headless Woman was written in two parts, from two perspectives. It is Ioana Dragomir’s first encounter with Grauerholz’s work, whereas Cheryl Simon has known Grauerholz for decades, having written about […]

Michel Huneault, From Trauma to Peaceful Memory – Sophie Mangado

Ciel variable 132 - TABLEAUX | Essays
Authors: Sophie Mangado | Artists: Michel Huneault

[Summer 2026] From Trauma to Peaceful Memory par Sophie Mangado [EXCERPT] In May 2012, Michel Huneault left for Japan, a country he knew nothing about. Not having been there in the wake of the “great Tohoku earthquake” (as the Japanese called it) of March 11, 2011, he had questions: “How can people live in so […]

le commun des mortels, “Look, you shall see” – Érika Nimis

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Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: le commun des mortels

[Summer 2026] “Look, you shall see” by Érika Nimis [EXCERPT] Amateur photographs – family snapshots, anonymous portraits, ordinary scenes – are, above all, traces of gestures intended to freeze a moment that will become a memory. Most of the time, these images, when they are no longer being “seen,” end up in the trash, physical […]

Camera and the City – Stéphanie Yvette Hornstein

Ciel variable 132 - TABLEAUX | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Stéphanie Yvette Hornstein

[Summer 2026] Camera and the city by Stéphanie Yvette Hornstein National Gallery of Canada | Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa 12.12.2025 — 15.03.2026 [EXCERPT] Whenever the National Gallery of Canada rolls out an exhibition showcasing its photographic collection, all of photoland takes note – and with good reason. This time, the institution’s exceptional holdings […]

Sepideh Farsi, Put Your Soul on Your Hands and Walk – Claudia Polledri

Ciel variable 132 - TABLEAUX | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Sepideh Farsi

[Summer 2026] Put Your Soul on Your Hands and Walk by Claudia Polledri Film documentaire, 2025, 111 minutes, anglais et arabe [EXCERPT] Premièred at the 2025 edition of the Cannes Festival, Sepideh Farsi’s film Put Your Soul on Your Hands and Walk is at once a challenge and a cinematographic tribute to how photography bears […]

Araki Nobuyoshi, Polaraki – Jessica Ragazzini

Ciel variable 132 - TABLEAUX | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jessica Ragazzini | Artists: Araki Nobuyoshi

[Summer 2026] Polaraki by Jessica Ragazzini Guimet – musée national des arts asiatiques, Paris 01.10.2025 — 12.01.2026 [EXCERPT] L’exposition POLARAKI propose une plongée au cœur d’un des médiums les plus précieux du photographe japonais Araki Nobuyoshi : le Polaroïd. Qualifié par le musée Guimet de « prolifique, obsessionnel et volontiers provocateur », dont le corps tout entier est […]

Storage Story – Safia Belmenouar

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Authors: Safia Belmenouar

[Summer 2026] Storage Story by Safia Belmenouar Photography Seoul Museum of Art 29.05.2025 — 12.10.2025 [EXCERPT] A compact, sculptural volume with a dark façade composed of horizontal lines that seem to be fragmented by natural light, the Photography Seoul Museum of Art (Photo SeMA), the first public museum in South Korea entirely devoted to photography, […]

Jasmin Bilodeau, C’est trop beau, je vais le prendre en photo – Nathalie Côté

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Authors: Nathalie Côté | Artists: Jasmin Bilodeau

[SUMMER2026] C’est trop beau, je vais le prendre en photo by Nathalie Côté VU, centre de diffusion et de production de la photographie, Québec 12.09.2025 — 19.10.2025 [EXCERPT] The photographic work that Jasmin Bilodeau presented at VU was his most accomplished and convincing solo show since 2019, when the artist trio BGL, with which he […]

Geneviève Thibault, Intérieurs – Bernard Schütze

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Authors: Bernard Schütze | Artists: Geneviève Thibault

[Été 2026] Intérieurs par Bernard Schütze Maison du notaire, Trois-Pistoles 15.08.2025 — 20.10.2025 [EXTRAIT] Les appels à démocratiser l’art ont multiplié les stratégies visant à élargir son accès et à rapprocher les institutions culturelles d’un public plus vaste. Pourtant, un facteur essentiel est souvent négligé : la manière dont chacun définit l’art et le relie à […]

Andrea Szilasi, Réfléchir – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 132 - TABLEAUX | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés | Artists: Andrea Szilasi

[Summer 2026] Réfléchir by Alexis Desgagnés McBride Contemporain, Montréal 15.01.2026 — 21.02.2026 [EXCERPT] As soon as I walked into Andrea Szilasi’s exhibition, I knew that I wanted to write about it. And yet, the sensitive impact of these works – fifteen collages in various formats, most of them small, and six Polaroids – made me […]

Yves Arcand, Indicia – Michel Hardy-Vallée

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Authors: Michel Hardy-Vallée | Artists: Yves Arcand

[Summer 2026] Indicia by Michel Hardy-Vallée Galerie POPOP, Montréal 26.11.2025 — 6.12.2025 [EXCERPT] Mirror of memory or drawing of nature? The dialectic of processes from the beginnings of photography has never really left us, and it emerges most clearly in the landscape genre. With image-defining hyper-detailed panoramas and panoptic views reminiscent of Ansel Adams, the […]

James Andrew Rosen, Aphasia – Louis Perreault

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Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: James Andrew Rosen

[Summer 2026] James Andrew Rosen, Aphasia by Louis Perreault Montréal, Sternthal Books, 2025, 144 pages [EXCERPT] Everything seems still. Light alone enlivens this slowed time, this reign of silence, revealing tiny air movements that gently push dust in an orbit around something undefined. The ballet performed here also exists elsewhere, in all of these rooms, inhabited […]

Martin Désilets, Matière noire – Jean Pelchat

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Authors: Jean Pelchat | Artists: Martin Désilets

[Summer 2026] Martin Désilets, Matière noire by Jean Pelchat Berlin, DISTANZ Verlag, 2025, 178 pages [EXCERPT] Matière noire, a beautiful, understated book, with an embossed (with the title and the artist’s name) graphite-coloured hard cover, includes three essays written in French, along with their translations into English and German: “The Black Doorway is Always There, at […]

Serge Clément et Alexis Desgagnés, Métamorphose – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alexis Desgagnés, Serge Clément

[Summer 2026] Serge Clément et Alexis Desgagnés, Métamorphose by Sylvain Campeau Québec et Paris, VU et Éditions Loco, 2025, 336 pages [EXCERPT] Matière noire, a beautiful, understated book, with an embossed (with the title and the artist’s name) graphite-coloured hard cover, includes three essays written in French, along with their translations into English and German: “The […]

Marie J. Jean, 1985. Image-Worlds – An interview by Jérome Delgado

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Authors: Jérôme Delgado | Artists: Marie J. Jean

[Summer 2026] Marie J. Jean An interview by Jérôme Delgado [EXCERPT] VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 2025. Rather than looking back at the institution’s history, the team decided to mark the occasion with an exhibition, 1985. Image-Worlds, and an eponymous publication aimed at probing the impact of the 1980s on […]