Michael Schreier, Tears for an Empty Desert: The Interiors – Petra Halkes

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Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Michael Schreier

[Fall 2007] Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa October 2 – 26, 2006 A key image in Michael Schreier’s recent photo exhibition shows tourists jostling for space in front of Michelangelo’s Pieta. The famous sculpture is bathed in a golden light and clearly visible above the frantic crowd, which could not be more at odds with this emblem of […]

Chris Marker, The Hollow Men – Niki Lambros

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Authors: Niki Lambros | Artists: Chris Marker

[Fall 2007] Dazibao, Montréal November 16 – December 14, 2006 What becomes history most? A credible witness. Even if the observer stands on the opposite shore, across an ocean of time, it is still possible to see into ruins and bear witness to a probable course of events for those who have long since become dust. Mnemosyne, […]

Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre – Judith Parker

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Authors: Judith Parker | Artists: Gregory Crewdson, Michael Snow, Paul Outerbridge Jr., Yasumasa Morimura

[Fall 2007] National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa June 16 – October 1, 2006 The exhibition’s introductory panel included the statement, “In the last 20 years the staged photograph has occupied a prominent place in the broader world of contemporary art, straddling the borders that traditionally separated photography from other media.” Accordingly, Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre […]

Rodney Graham – Marie-Josée Jean

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Authors: Marie-Josée Jean | Artists: Rodney Graham

[Fall 2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal du 7 octobre 2006 au 7 janvier 2007

ECOTOPIA: Allegories of Disaster – Maria Antonella Pelizzari

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Authors: Maria Antonella Pelizzari | Artists: Adam Broomberg, Carlos & Jason Sanchez, Oliver Chanarin, Robert Adams

[Fall 2007] International Center of Photography, New York September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007 The debate over the effect of technology on the land has always been central to American photography and culture. In the nineteenth century, it was about the optimistic arrival of railroad tracks in the wilderness; in the early twentieth century, it was […]

Alain Declercq, Embedded versus Wildcat – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alain Declercq

[Fall 2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre Vox, Montréal du 9 septembre au 21 octobre 2006

Douglas Gordon, Timeline – Ariane Noël de Tilly

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Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Douglas Gordon

[Winter 2005-2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Museum of Modern Art, New York du 11 juin au 4 septembre 2006

Toni Hafkenschied, HO – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Toni Hafkenschied

[Winter 2006-2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre VU, Québec du 5 mai au 4 juin 2006

Alone, Curated by Penny Cousineau-Levine – Gary Michael Dault

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Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Jennifer Campbell, Kate Greenslade, Lori Newdick, Mackenzie Stroh, Marisa Portolese

[Winter 2006-2007] Curated by Penny Cousineau-Levine Gallery 44 and Gallery TPW, Toronto September 14 – October 28, 2006 Loneliness, existential or otherwise, has been the informing condition of twentieth-century society, and it looks as if it will continue to be so in the twenty-first century. Penny Cousineau-Levine’s recent two-gallery exhibition, Alone, was a vivid, surprising, […]

Pascal Grandmaison – Charles Guilbert

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Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Pascal Grandmaison

[Winter 2006-2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal du 27 mai au 9 octobre 2006

Nicolas Baier – Stéphane Baillargeon

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Authors: Stéphane Baillargeon | Artists: Nicolas Baier

[Winter 2006-2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie René Blouin du 1er avril au 6 mai 2006

Les Rencontres d’Arles, Raymond Depardon et ses invités – Bruno Chalifour

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Authors: Bruno Chalifour | Artists: David Goldblatt, Philippe Chancel, Raymond Depardon, Sophie Ristelhueber

[Winter 2006-2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Arles du 4 juillet au 17 septembre 2006

Snap Judgments, New Positions in Contemporary African Photography – Dominique Fontaine

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Authors: Dominique Fontaine | Artists: Nontsikelelo “lolo” Vekelo, Tracey Rose, Yto Barrada

[Winter 2006-2007] Cet article a été à l’origine uniquement publié en anglais. Vous pouvez le lire en consultant la version anglaise de cette page. International Center of Photography, New York du 15 mars au 28 mai 2006

Hala Elkoussy, Peripheral (and Other Stories) – Michèle Cohen Hadria

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Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Hala Elkoussy

[Fall 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam du 2 avril au 14 mai 2006

Maryse Larivière, Wild is the Wind – SB Edwards

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Authors: SB Edwards | Artists: Maryse Larivière

[Fall 2006] Galerie Clark, Montreal March 9 – April 22, 2006 The rhythmic sound of waves lapping against the shore pervades the small back room of Galerie Clark in Montreal. It accompanies a wall-size video projection of a couple embracing tightly at the water’s edge. Only the young woman’s pale face is visible as she stares silently […]

Mark Ruwedel, Written on the Land – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Mark Ruwedel

[Fall 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée de Joliette du 12 février au 16 avril 2006

BGL, Effet de mode et autres pirateries du genre – Ariane Noël de Tilly

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Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: BGL

[Fall 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Optica, Montréal du 28 avril au 3 juin 2006

CONTACT Photography Festival, Imaging a global culture – David Balzer

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Authors: David Balzer | Artists: David Maisel, John Ganis, Rita Leistner

[Fall 2006] Toronto May 1 – 31, 2006 The CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival’s tenth-anniversary theme was “Imaging a Global Culture,” a reasonable choice for a festival that, like the city that hosts it, likes to underscore perspectives from a range of locales, customs and ethnicities. The theme also has an optimistic, ingenuous ring to it, a possible […]

Angela Grauerholz, Reading Room for the Working Artist – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Summer 2006] VOX image contemporaine, Montreal January 28–March 18, 2006 There are two fantasmatic limits of the book to come, two extreme, final, eschatic figures of the end of the book, the end as death, or the end as telos and achievement. ⎯ Jacques Derrida, Paper Machine1 The archive unfolds in a lush, moving and […]

Laura Letinsky, Somewhere, Somewhere – Jessica Wyman

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Authors: Jessica Wyman | Artists: Laura Letinsky

[Summer 2006] Oakville Galleries January 28–March 26, 2006 Even an anonymous hotel room speaks volumes of its transient guest after only a few hours. A place inhabited by the same person for a certain duration draws a portrait that resembles this person based on objects (present or absent) and the habits that they imply.1 Several […]

Sunil Gupta – Johanna Mizgala

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Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Sunil Gupta

[Summer 2006] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography November 25, 2005–April 23, 2006 Sunil Gupta is a storyteller. In decided contrast to Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moment,” Gupta opts to engage the viewer with photographs that act as a series of narrative spaces – they are clues to moments in time as opposed to ruptures of time – suggesting a sense that […]

Guy Blackburn, Touche – Christine Gauthier

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Authors: Christine Gauthier | Artists: Guy Blackburn

[Summer 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre Sagamie, Alma 8 décembre 2005 au 29 juin 2006

Jennifer Long, Doubt – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Jennifer Long

[Summer 2006] La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal 20 January–26 February 2006 The nine medium-scale colour photographs of women in this exhibition are akin to a searchlight focused on a troubling affliction of the heart that few today have not experienced at first hand: lover’s doubt. The images are powerfully interrogatory, offering an up-close and personal […]

Sylvie Readman – Suzanne Paquet

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Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Sylvie Readman

[Summer 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre d’exposition Plein sud du 4 mars au 15 avril 2006 Centre d’exposition Expression du 18 mars au 23 avril 2006

Shirin Neshat, Zarin – Maria Zimmermann Brendel

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Authors: Maria Zimmermann Brendel | Artists: Shirin Neshat

[Summer 2006] Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin October 1–December 4, 2005 Through poetry/art humans have survived. – Shirin Neshat Shirin Neshat’s chromatic single-channel projection Zarin (2005) had its premiere in Berlin. This 35 mm film, transferred to dvd, does not catapult viewers onto the seashore and into musical expanse – as does Passage – […]

Doyon-Rivest – Kevin Temple

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Authors: Kevin Temple | Artists: Mathieu Doyon, Simon Rivest

[Spring 2006] Doyon-Rivest thanks for being there October 27–November 26, 2005 Gallery TPW The work of Doyon-Rivest asks the simple question, If the world of advertising can exploit art and artists for financial benefit, then why can’t artists appropriate the tools of advertising in their art practice? When you set aside the alleged lofty goals […]

Jeff Wall – Cyril Thomas

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Authors: Cyril Thomas | Artists: Jeff Wall

[Spring 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Tate Modern, Londres du 21 octobre 2005 au 8 janvier 2006

Diana Thorneycroft – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Diana Thorneycroft

[Spring 2006] The Canadiana Martyrdom Series Galerie Art Mûr, Montreal November 17 – December 21, 2005 I make of Her an image of Death so as not to be shattered through the hatred I bear against myself when I identify with Her. . . . Thus the feminine as image of death is not only […]

Territoires urbains – Serge Bérard

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Authors: Serge Bérard | Artists: Christian Barré, Emmanuelle Léonard, Isabelle Hayeur, Martin Désilets, Myriam Yates, Pavel Pavlov

[Winter 2005-2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée d’art contemporain Montréal 7 octobre 2005 au 8 janvier 2006

Nobuyoshi Araki – Cyril Thomas

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Authors: Cyril Thomas | Artists: Araki Nobuyoshi

This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Palais de Tokyo Paris 8 octobre 2005