Portfolios
Angela Grauerholz, Sans titre (circular) (extraits)
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Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Angela Grauerholz, Sans titre (artists regrouping) (extraits)
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Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Angela Grauerholz, Sans titre (Courting death) (extraits)
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Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Angela Grauerholz, Épiphytes (extraits)
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Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005] World-view and self-image are indissolubly intertwined with each other. The way man sees the world is the way he sees himself; the way he conceives himself is the way he conceives the world. Alterations in his view of the world lead to alterations in his view of himself and vice versa. ⎯ Christopher […]
Angela Grauerholz, Familiaris (extraits)
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Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Angela Grauerholz, La flâneuse (extraits)
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Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005] There is no question of inventing the flaneuse: the essential point is that such a character was rendered impossible by the sexual divisions of the nineteenth century. Nor is it appropriate to reject totally the existing literature on modernity, for the experiences it describes certainly defined a good deal of the lives of […]
Angela Grauerholz, Vorbilder (modèles)
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Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Spring 2005]
Klaus Scherübel – Reinhard Braun, The Artist at Work
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Authors: Reinhard Braun | Artists: Klaus Scherübel
[Fall 2004] In his series Untitled (The Artist at Work), Klaus Scherübel presents a paradoxical system of references to myths and phantasms of modernism and to descriptive contexts of current art. To take the title or the visual appearance as a starting point already implies taking part in a discourse that is subverted by the […]
Hicham Benohoud, Version soft – Lyne Crevier, résister
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Authors: Lyne Crevier | Artists: Hicham Benohoud
[Fall 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract In his series of self-portraits Version soft, the Moroccan artist Hicham Benohoud has metamorphosed his features by “martyrizing” his head in harsh photographs recalling those in Photomatons or mug shots. […]
Pascal Grandmaison, Portraits – Christine Bernier, Cet autre regard du portrait
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Authors: Christine Bernier | Artists: Pascal Grandmaison
[Fall 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Pascal Grandmaison’s photographic and videographic work is often defined as renewing the concept of the portrait. This text explains that the innovation of Grandmaison’s portraits is situated more in the […]
Jason Salavon, Fuzzy Logic – Elizabeth Menon, The conceptual Aesthetic of Jason Salavon
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Authors: Elizabeth Menon | Artists: Jason Salavon
[Summer 2004] Jason Salavon employs computers and code to transform material appropriated from popular culture. His work ranges from digital video installations to Web-based interactive works and works on computers to create paintings that blur the line between manmade and machine aesthetic. His photo and video-based print works cultivate a dual aesthetic of painterly veils […]
Louis Joncas, Detritus – George Bogardi
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Authors: George Bogardi | Artists: Louis Joncas
[Summer 2004] The Detritus series is an ongoing investigation of Joncas’s material existence, informed by still-life painting and vanitas. The series depicts the detritus of domestic life and everyday survival. It questions rituals and banal chores – such as cleaning, eating, grooming, and consuming – that leave behind an endless trail of detritus. The objects […]
Gwenaël Bélanger, Chutes – Marie-Ève Charron, De la trajectoire dans la chute des corps
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Authors: Marie-Ève Charron | Artists: Gwenaël Bélanger
[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Gwenaël Bélanger’s series Chutes follows in the spirit of early-twentieth-century studies on transcription of movement. Each series uses a sequential modality to reconstitute the trajectory of everyday objects abandoned in […]
Sorel Cohen, Divans maudits – Sophie Mendelsohn and Krystel Wallet, D’un regard… à l’autre
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Authors: Krystel Wallet, Sophie Mendelsohn | Artists: Sorel Cohen
[Spring 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract During a stay in Paris, Sorel Cohen set up her camera in different psychoanalysts’ offices. The result was a series of images around the analyst’s couch, the body that we […]
Nikki S. Lee – Dayna McLeod, Stretching Identity to Fit: The Many Faces of Nikki S. Lee
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Authors: Dayna McLeod | Artists: Nikki S. Lee
[Spring 2004] par Dayna McLeod In “Image #6” of Nikki Lee’s The Punk Project series, two punks are seated on the cement steps of an innocuous building. He has a closely cropped mohawk and wears camouflage pants with a leather jacket thrown across his lap. She wears ripped net stockings over striped tights, and a […]
Massimo Guerrera, Le temps de déclencher quelques ouvertures – Massimo Guerrera, Porus
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Authors: Massimo Guerrera | Artists: Massimo Guerrera
[Spring 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Yinka Shonibare, Journal d’un dandy victorien – Eduardo Ralickas, Yinka Shonibare: le dandysme et la figuration de l’histoire
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Authors: Eduardo Ralickas | Artists: Yinka Shonibare
[Spring 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Yinka Shonibare’s works can be characterized in terms of their powerful deconstruction of Western notions of identity. In this light, the artist’s embrace of the figure of the dandy is […]
The Bigger Picture – Karen Love, The Bigger Picture: Portraits from Ottawa
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Authors: Karen Love | Artists: Alexandre Castonguay, Allan MacKay, Arnaud Maggs, Barbara Woodley, Charles Gagnon, Chris Lund, Chris Mikula, David Barbour, David Cation, Duncan Cameron, Evergon, Germaine Koh, Jeffrey Thomas, Jerry Grey, Justin Wonnacott, Ken Lum, Larissa Fassler, Lynn Ball, Max Dean, Michael Schreier, Michael Snow, Paul Couvrette, Rod MacIvor, Sylvain Cousineau, Tony Fouhse, Trevor Gould
[Winter 2003] The Bigger Picture: Portraits from Ottawa, organized for the Ottawa Art Gallery by Karen Love, gathers together over 200 Ottawa portraits by 78 image-makers, presented thematically in order to provoke a range of questions about how we understand the idea of a portrait. No longer simply an accurate depiction of physical characteristics or […]
Scott Walden, Unsettled – Scott Walden, Places Lost. In search of Newfoundland’s resettled communities
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Authors: Scott Walden | Artists: Scott Walden
[Winter 2003] Scott Walden’s Unsettled was produced following a summer spent in Newfoundland photographing the remnants of abandoned coastal communities, casualties of government programs seeking to centralize the new province’s scattered population. The resulting book, Places Lost: In Search of Newfoundland’s Resettled Communities, gathers some forty images reproduced in duotone, along with many vintage photographs […]
Linea di Confine : William Guerrieri, Sergio Buffini, Marco Signorini, Paola di Bello, Guido Guidi – Michèle Cohen Hadria, Le lointain est ici
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Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Guido Guidi, Marco Signorini, Paola Di Bello, Sergio Buffini, William Guerrieri
[Winter 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The Linea de Confine movement in Emilie Romagne (northern Italy), both conceptual and empirical in its relationship with the territory, follows the lineage of Italian photography of the 1970s – […]
Yann Mingard and Alban Kakulya, À l’est d’un nouvel éden – Yann Mingard and Alban Kakulya, Une frontière à l’est d’un nouvel éden. Périple documenté sur les futures limites extérieures de l’Union européenne
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Authors: Alban Kakulya, Yann Mingard | Artists: Alban Kakulya, Yann Mingard
[Winter 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract From the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea stretches a strip of land more or less six hundred kilometres wide, inhabited by more than sixty million people belonging to seven […]
Stéphane Couturier, Villes génériques – Emmanuel Hermange, Plasticité de l’entropie urbaine
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Authors: Emmanuel Hermange | Artists: Stéphane Couturier
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Stéphane Couturier’s Villes génériques series is a continuation of the photographic work on urban sites under construction that he has been producing for a number of years. This archaeology of […]
Arni Haraldsson, Israel, Jordan and South Africa – Jordan Strom, Posing Presidios: A Conversation with Arni Haraldsson
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Authors: Jordan Strom | Artists: Arni Haraldsson
[Summer 2003] In parallel to his continuing dozen-year-long project, which addresses the livedness, context, and peculiarities of space in modernist architecture, Haraldsson’s recent photographic works focus on other grounds inherent to modernism, built space, and our relationships to them. In these recent parallel projects – the photographs of Jerusalem’s cityscapes and the Via Dolorosa, the […]
Marik Boudreau, Miradors – André Lamarre, L’œil de la montagne. Sur la recherche photographique de Marik Boudreau
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Authors: André Lamarre | Artists: Marik Boudreau
[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract With Miradors, which bears the subtitle Essai photographique sur l’érosion (Photographic essay on erosion), Marik Boudreau has produced a synthesis of her work on abandoned sites and urban ruins. An […]
Olivier Christinat, Portraits et nus – Lyne Crevier, Dévisager
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Authors: Lyne Crevier | Artists: Olivier Christinat
[Summer 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Olivier Christinat’s spare mises en scène form the canvas for portraits or nudes of young women in a sort of intimate encounter between artist and model that seems to overstep […]
Marisa Portolese, Belle de jour – Dayna McLeod, Tattooed innocence with post-punk appeal
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Authors: Dayna McLeod | Artists: Marisa Portolese
[Summer 2002] Self-possessed women of all shapes, sizes, and ages, each fills the frame with intense looks, confidence, sex appeal, and power as she looks head-on into the camera’s lens and past, to the viewer. Compellingly seductive, these subjects pose for themselves and for the camera with a confronting gaze that is just as powerful. […]
Evergon, Evergon, Margaret and I – Alain Laframboise, Le miroir d’Evergon
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Authors: Alain Laframboise | Artists: Evergon
[Summer 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The tradition of representing young women to emphasize the ephemeral nature of beauty is very old, as is that of showing older, physically worn women to encourage reflection on time’s […]
Isabelle Hayeur, Paysages incertains – Suzanne Paquet, Quelques fêlures
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Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur
[Spring 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Isabelle Hayeur’s work points as much to the idea of “realism” in photography as to that of authenticity of the landscape(s). These are linked issues, since the landscape is probably […]