Emanuel Licha – Stephen Horne

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Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Emanuel Licha

March 1, 2017 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — With his new feature film, Hotel Machine, artist Emanuel Licha, based in Paris and Montreal, continues his questioning of the place of media and the mediatization of place. His process takes him to the “front lines” of recent warfare – at least, the front lines in the sense of media communications. Taking the relationship between architecture and mass media as a topography, Hotel Machine is a cinematic inquiry into …

Walid Raad – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Walid Raad

February 18, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Walther Collection Project Space – Érika Nimis

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Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Andrew Esiebo, François-Xavier Gbré, Mimi Cherono Ng'ok

February 20, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Daido Moriyama – Michèle Cohen Hadria 


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Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Daido Moriyama

November 13, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Catherine Bodmer – Isadora Chicoine-Marinier

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Authors: Isadora Chicoine-Marinier | Artists: Catherine Bodmer

November 18, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Petra Mala Miller – Stephen Horne

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Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Petra Mala Miller

November 20, 2019 [originally published in Spring 2016] — Walking into a room full of strangers can be a disconcerting experience, exposing us to questions about belonging and difference. In contrast to such an expectation, Petra Mala Miller’s exhibition Portraits in Light offers a welcoming embrace, perhaps one that recognizes our commonality as strangers.

Yann Pocreau – Claire Moeder

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Authors: Claire Moeder | Artists: Yann Pocreau

November 25, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Stan Douglas – Érika Wicky

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Authors: Erika Wicky | Artists: Stan Douglas

December 3, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Nadia Seboussi – Claudia Polledri

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Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Nadia Seboussi

December 3, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Thomas Kneubühler – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Thomas Kneubühler

December 9, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Scott Conarroe, Canada By Rail and By Sea – Jon Davies

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Authors: Jon Davies | Artists: Scott Conarroe

9 Septembre 2019 [originellement publié à l’hiver 2016] — Born in 1974 in Edmonton, Scott Conarroe is best known for his continent-spanning By Rail (2007–09) and By Sea (2009–11). In these photographic series, Conarroe employed a large-format camera and long exposures to consider the U.S. and Canadian landscape, and the myriad transformations that it has undergone, via its expansive railways and coastlines.

Alain Laframboise, Le sens du quotidien – Gabrielle Desgagné-Duclos

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Authors: Gabrielle Desgagné-Duclos | Artists: Alain Laframboise

September 11, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Nicole Jolicoeur, Toucher sur image (vibrato) – Sheena Gourlay

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Authors: Sheena Ellison | Artists: Nicole Jolicoeur

September 16, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Yto Barrada, Beaux Gestes – Blake Fitzpatrick

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Authors: Blake Fitzpatrick | Artists: Yto Barrada

September 18, 2019 [originellement publié à l’hiver 2016] — The rupturing effects of global change – as epitomized recently by news stories about migrants in over-crowded boats, with bodies on deck, in the hull, and in the sea – come to roost at the local level, where the risks of globalization are most exposed but also potentially transformed through acts of resistance…

Campeau, Carrière, Clément: Accumulations – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bertrand Carrière, Michel Campeau, Serge Clément

September 24, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Pièces de résistance – Colette Tougas

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Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Yinka Shonibare

September 25, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Christopher Williams – Fabien Pinaroli

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Authors: Fabien Pinaroli | Artists: Christopher Williams

September 30, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

12e édition de la Biennale de La Havane – Érika Nimis

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Authors: Erika Nimis

October 2, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Images à charge : la construction de la preuve par l’image – Érika Wicky

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Authors: Erika Wicky

October 7, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Andrew Wright, Untitled Photographic Pictures – Adam Barbu

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Authors: Adam Barbu | Artists: Andrew Wright

June 12, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — In recent years, Ottawa-based artist Andrew Wright has produced numerous bodies of work that propose new readings on the ontology of the image. In particular, Wright’s exhibition at Patrick Mikhail’s new Montreal gallery space, titled Untitled Photographic Pictures, presents a series of large-scale photographic works and two mixed-media sculptural works…

Manon Labrecque, L’origine d’un mouvement – Judith Parker

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Authors: Judith Parker | Artists: Manon Labrecque

June 18, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — The artist’s body as a site for the investigation of the internal dualities of the self is the subject of a compelling exhibition of video projections, kinetic sculptures, and drawings by Montreal artist Manon Labrecque…

Alain Lefort, PEQUOD (‘pi:’kwad) – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Alain Lefort

June 20, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — Lefort fittingly cribs his title from American author Herman Melville’s 1851 magnum opus Moby Dick: the Pequod is a fictitious nineteenth-century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the novel as an instrument of revenge…

Mark Lewis, Above and Below – Michèle Cohen Hadria

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Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Mark Lewis

June 25, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Chih-Chien Wang, The Act of Forgetting – Claire Moeder

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Authors: Claire Moeder | Artists: Chih-Chien Wang

June 27, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Sophie Calle, L’austérité du regard – Vincent Brault

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Authors: Vincent Brault | Artists: Sophie Calle

July 2, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Sophie Calle, Pour la première et la dernière fois – Alain Laframboise & Vincent Brault

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Authors: Alain Laframboise | Artists: Sophie Calle

July 2, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Raymonde April, Near You No Cold – Anne-Marie Proulx

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Authors: Anne-Marie Proulx | Artists: Raymonde April

July 3, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Benoit Aquin, Mégantic photographié – Vincent Lavoie

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Authors: Vincent Lavoie | Artists: Benoit Aquin

July 29, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Akram Zaatari, All Is Well – Mirna Boyadjian

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Authors: Mirna Boyadjian | Artists: Akram Zaatari

April 10, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Suzy Lake, Introducing Suzy Lake – Sam Cotter

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Authors: Sam Cotter | Artists: Suzy Lake

April 16, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — For over forty years, Suzy Lake has been engaging with the world of representation surrounding her, creating new images to open dialogues and complicate underlying ideologies. Introducing Suzy Lake, the first major museum retrospective of her work, organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, looks to Lake’s performative engagement with the camera from the late 1960s to the present…