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Bert Danckaert, Teatros — Emmanuel Galland

Ciel variable 124 – SEEING THROUGH IMAGES | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Emmanuel Galland | Artists: Bert Danckaert

[Fall 2023] By Emmanuel Galland [Excerpt] Galerie Laroche / Joncas, Montréal 11.01.2023 — 11.02.2023 The Belgian artist Bert Danckaert’s regular visits to Cuba seem to have created a new opening in his work, as can be seen in his recent series Teatros (2018–22). In his previous projects, he collected fragments of urban life in tight […]

Sanaz Sohrabi, Extraction Out of Frame — Stéphanie Hornstein

Ciel variable 124 – SEEING THROUGH IMAGES | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Stéphanie Hornstein | Artists: Sanaz Sohrabi

[Fall 2023] By Stéphanie Hornstein [Excerpt] VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal 14.01.2023 — 4.03.2023 In an all-new body of work commissioned by VOX, Sanaz Sohrabi traces the imperialist legacy of Britain’s involvement in the exploitation of Iranian oil resources from the first concession, in 1901, to the forced nationalization of the British Petroleum Company […]

Lynne Cohen / Marina Gadonneix, Laboratories / Observatories — Stephen Horne

Ciel variable 124 – SEEING THROUGH IMAGES | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Lynne Cohen

[Fall 2023] By [Excerpt] Centre Pompidou, Paris 12.04.2023 — 28.08.2023 “It’s not that I don’t care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning.” — James Welling The exhibition Laboratories/Observatories comprises large bodies of work by two contemporary photographers: the late American/Canadian Lynne Cohen (1944– 2014) and the French Marina […]

Evergon Nitty Gritty: Male Toilet Angst — Karl-Gilbert Murray

Ciel variable 124 – SEEING THROUGH IMAGES | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Karl-Gilbert Murray | Artists: Evergon

[Fall 2023] By Karl-Gilbert Murray [Excerpt] Ellephant, Montréal 25.02.2023 — 28.04.2023 The exhibition Nitty Gritty: Male Toilet Angst at Galerie Ellephant presents a group of Evergon’s photographs from the series Manscapes. Bathed in backlighting that indicates an aesthetic choice, the images suggest a sense of reflection that oscillates between study of morals and analysis of […]

African Studies, Edward Burtynsky — Anaïs Castro

Ciel variable 124 – SEEING THROUGH IMAGES | Book Reviews
Artists: Edward Burtynsky

[Fall 2023] By Anaïs Castro [Excerpt] African Studies Edward Burtynsky Göttingen, Steidl, 2022, 208 pages Edward Burtynsky’s most recent book, African Studies, is a visually stunning journey across the second-largest and widely misunderstood continent that is Africa, and the forces of industrialization and globalization that are shaping its diverse landscapes. Burtynsky enlisted esteemed collaborators on […]

Manifeste pour une post-photographie, Joan Fontcuberta — Nicolas Mavrikakis

Ciel variable 124 – SEEING THROUGH IMAGES | Book Reviews
Artists: Joan Fontcuberta

[Fall 2023] By Nicolas Mavrikakis [Excerpt] Manifeste pour une post-photographie Joan Fontcuberta Arles, Actes Sud, 2022, 80 pages The artist, critic, professor, and theoretician Joan Fontcuberta has written a manifesto in which he takes an unvarnished look at issues and, especially, anxieties surrounding how photographs, and the image in general, seem to be changing in […]

New & Worthy — Jérôme Delgado

Ciel variable 124 – SEEING THROUGH IMAGES | Book Reviews
Authors: Jérôme Delgado

[Fall 2023] By Jérôme Delgado [Excerpt] Clément Brochet et Marvin Serandrei, Conversations, sous la direction d’Anick Arsenault et Geneviève Thibault, Matane, Cégep de Matane, 2022, non paginé Josée Pedneault, Contre-jour, Montréal, Free Pony Press, 2022, non paginé [bilingue] Guy Tremblay, À la vitesse que poussent les arbres. Guide de survie en temps de morosité, Montréal, […]

Ciel variable 125 – Agglomerations

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS

[Winter 2024] Cities are born from clusters of structures that provide shelter for human life and activities. Through them flow grids of thoroughfares that form patterns of movement and exchange. That’s what an urban agglomeration is: a dense knot, large or small, placed at a certain point in a rhizomatic lattice that runs through an […]

Agglomerations

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Portfolios
Artists: Bertrand Carrière, Éric Tabuchi, Nelly Monnier, Suzanne Lafont

Éric Tabuchi / Nelly Monnier, Exposer l’ARN — Luce Lebart, Photographic Tour of France

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Portfolios
Authors: Luce Lebart | Artists: Éric Tabuchi, Nelly Monnier

[Winter 2024] Photographic Tour of France By Luce Lebart [Excerpt] Soleil Gris, Éric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier’s exhibition in Arles,1 opened under a blazing sun in the Ground Control industrial site on the edge of the historic city in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. This big hangar, to which attendees to Rencontres d’Arles photography festival rarely return […]

Art, publics et cultures numériques – Jean Gagnon

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Book Reviews
Authors: Jean Gagnon | Artists: Jean Gagnon

[Winter 2024] By Jean Gagnon Sous la direction de Suzanne Paquet et Alexandrine Théorêt Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2023, 201 pages [Excerpt] This book, published by a university press in spring 2023, bears a title that might lead one to believe that it addresses the publics for works circulating in digital networks. It […]

Documentary Genealogies: Photography 1848–1917 – Jill Glessing

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Book Reviews
Authors: Jill Glessing

[Winter 2024] By Jill Glessing Edited by Jorge Ribalta Madrid, Museo Reina Sofia, 2023, 263 pages [Excerpt] Important technologies are designed for and controlled by those holding wealth and power. Photography, as a potent information medium, is one of these. It was developed during the mid-nineteenth century in France and England – Europe’s imperialist heartland […]

Photographie contemporaine et anthropocène – Bénédicte Ramade

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Book Reviews, Recensions de publications
Authors: Bénédicte Ramade

[Winter 2024] Bénédicte Ramade Photographie contemporaine & anthropocène Danièle Méaux Paris, Éditions Filigranes, 2022, 288 pages [Excerpt] How do we photograph the hyper-object that is the Anthropocene? How do we capture the geological and atmospheric dimensions of this human-determined epoch, the chronology of which stretches back centuries, according to research on the Capitalocene (Andreas Malm), […]

Suzanne Lafont, Nouvelles espèces de compagnie — Julie Martin, Urban Intrusion

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Portfolios
Authors: Julie Martin

[Winter 2024] Urban Intrusion By Julie Martin [Excerpt] Here, petals in subtle variations of red. There, the intricately traced veins of a leaf. Elsewhere, delicate yellow stamens; and farther on, a clean green sepal and half-open cottony buds. In her series Nouvelles espèces de compagnie, produced in 2017 for a commission from the city of […]

Bertrand Carrière, Autoroutes 10-20-55 — Michel Hardy-Vallée, Landscape and Automobile

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Portfolios
Authors: Michel Hardy-Vallée | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

[Winter 2024] Landscape and Automobile By Michel Hardy-Vallée [Excerpt] Recently, driving home from Quebec City, I stopped for hot dogs in Neuville. The setting wasn’t elegant: a gas station with a food concession, surrounded by a lot with vague edges. I wanted something shapeless and soft after spending a full day with intellectually and aesthetically […]

Jocelyne Alloucherie, The Image Set in Motion Between Non-Place and Monument – Christian Roy

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Essays
Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Jocelyne Alloucherie

[Winter 2024] The Image Set in Motion Between Non-Place and Monument By Christian Roy [Excerpt] Selected to contribute to the design of the Viau station, one of the five that will extend the Montreal metro’s blue line, Jocelyne Alloucherie developed a proposal around images of clouds. She recently offered an overview of it, for which […]

Wolfgang Tillmans, From Banal to Beautiful – Jill Glessing

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Essays
Authors: Jill Glessing | Artists: Wolfgang Tillmans

[Winter 2024] From Banal to Beautiful By Jill Glessing [Excerpt] To Look Without Fear – the title of the German artist Wolfgang Tillmans’s traveling exhibition presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario1 – is an invitation to look around us, unflinchingly, at the real world that we inhabit, an approach modelled throughout Tillmans’s career and […]

Peter Hujar, Performing After the Fact – Didier Morelli

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Essays
Authors: Didier Morelli | Artists: Peter Hujar

[Winter 2024] Performing After the Fact By Didier Morelli [Excerpt] In the Art Institute of Chicago’s lower level, the Photography and Media galleries are a bit of a vault. The drop ceiling hangs low, and the rooms pale in comparison to the museum’s tall and light-flooded galleries above. While Georges Seurat’s emblematic A Sunday on […]

Shelley Niro, 500 Year Itch – Sophie Guignard

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sophie Guignard | Artists: Shelley Niro

[Winter 2024] By Sophie Guignard National Museum of the American Indian, New York 27.05.2023 — 1.01.2024 [Excerpt] The exhibition Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch is the first major retrospective for Shelley Niro, a multidisciplinary Mohawk artist from the Bay of Quinte Kanyen’kehá:ka Nation and member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, Turtle Clan. […]

Josué Azor, Emmanuel Galland, Roberto Stephenson, Haïti – Territoires informels – Jean-Michel Quirion

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Jean-Michel Quirion | Artists: Emmanuel Galland, Josué Azor, Roberto Stephenson

[Winter 2024] By Jean-Michel Quirion Art-image et espace Odyssée de la Maison de la culture de Gatineau 6.07.2023 — 27.08.2023 [Excerpt] The travelling exhibition Haïti – Territoires informels, an initiative by the Montreal artist and curator Emmanuel Galland, is deployed in three series of images by three photographers: Galland himself and the Haitian photographers Josué […]

Shirin Neshat, The Fury – Emmanuelle Choquette

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Emmanuelle Choquette | Artists: Shirin Neshat

[Winter 2024] By Emmanuelle Choquette Centre PHI, Montréal 28.06.2023 — 20.08.2023 [Excerpt] Iranian artist Shirin Neshat’s exhibition The Fury resonates strikingly with current events. Neshat addresses the subject of violence perpetrated on people imprisoned for political reasons in the Islamic Republic of Iran, with a specific focus on the treatment of women and girls, many […]

Michel Huneault, Péninsule – Baptiste Grison

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Baptiste Grison | Artists: Michel Huneault

[Winter 2024] By Baptiste Grison Musée régional de Rimouski 4.06.2023 — 3.09.2023 [Excerpt] “Does this line exist if we don’t see it?” Michel Huneault asked himself this question when he visited the website Surging Seas, which features easy-to-use interactive “risk maps” that allow users to view the prospective effects of sea level rises caused by […]

John Akomfrah, Purple – Ariane Noël de Tilly

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: John Akomfrah

[Winter 2024] By Ariane Noël de Tilly Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC 23.11.2022 — 7.01.2024 [Excerpt] Like Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings featuring a traveller, a monk, or a handful of people painted from the back looking out at a grandiose landscape – Moonrise over the Sea (1822), for example – the Ghanaian-British artist […]

Léna Mill-Reuillard, Airer – Marie Perrault

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Marie Perrault | Artists: Léna Mill-Reuillard

[Winter 2024] By Marie Perrault DRAC Art actuel, Drummondville 8.07.2023 — 20.08.2023 [Excerpt] The exhibition Airer at DRAC Art actuel consisted of Léna Mill-Reuillard’s video installation shot at dusk during a residency at the Grantham Foundation. Projected on six big size screens, the installation transposes the spatial organization of the foundation’s building situated near Drummondville. […]

Patrick Beaulieu, Transvasements – Jérôme Delgado

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Critiques d'expositions, Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Jérôme Delgado | Artists: Patrick Beaulieu

[Winter 2024] By Jérôme Delgado Art Mûr, Montréal 9.09.2023 — 28.10.2023 [Excerpt] In still and moving images, as well as by various other means (installation, ambient sound, found objects), the exhibition Transvasements takes us to the south of France for a boat trip – in an old fishing boat, to be precise, furnished with a […]

Sara A. Tremblay, Poids, plumes – Franck Michel

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Sara A. Tremblay

[Winter 2024] By Franck Michel Galerie B-312, Montréal 10.03.2023 — 29.04.2023 [Excerpt] The exhibition Poids, plumes marks a return to the gallery for Sara A. Tremblay after a number of years away. Her great sensitivity and pointed sense of observation are still evident in these works, which display the themes dearest to her: the intimate […]

Marie-Carole Noël / Elisapie Isaac, Derrière chaque image, une histoire — Jacques Doyon

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Interviews
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Elisapie Isaac, Marie-Carole Noël

[Winter 2024] An interview by Jacques Doyon [Excerpt] [ Complete issue, in print and digital version, available here: Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS ] [ Complete article, in digital version, available here: Marie-Carole Noël / Elisapie Isaac, Derrière chaque image, une histoire — Jacques Doyon ]

Rhizomes, Atlases, and Herbaria

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Bertrand Carrière, Éric Tabuchi, Nelly Monnier, Suzanne Lafont

[Winter 2024] By Jacques Doyon Cities are born from clusters of structures that provide shelter for human life and activities. Through them flow grids of thoroughfares that form patterns of movement and exchange. That’s what an urban agglomeration is: a dense knot, large or small, placed at a certain point in a rhizomatic lattice that […]

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