Adam Basanta – Sylvain Campeau
Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Adam Basanta
November 26, 2019 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Exhibition reviews
Developing Historical Negatives — Robert Anderson
Exhibition reviews
Authors: Robert Anderson | Artists: Deanna Bowen, Hajra Waheed, Jacqueline Hóang Nguyễn, Krista Belle Stewart, Morris Lum
September 30, 2019 — In Developing Historical Negatives, OCAD University professor Gabrielle Moser (Photography and Belonging in the British Empire, Penn State UP, 2019) commissions artists who explore the ‘racialized body.’ …
Steve Leroux, Projections (2014-2019) — Franck Michel
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Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Steve Leroux
[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Occurrence, centre d’art et d’essai, Montréal Du 9 mai au 15 juin 2019 Par Franck Michel (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.] […]
Michelle Bui, Centerfold — Jean-Michel Quirion
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Authors: Jean-Michel Quirion | Artists: Michelle Bui
[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Parisian Laundry, Montréal Du 18 avril au 25 mai 2019 Par Jean-Michel Quirion (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.] Purchase this issue
Barbara Breitenfellner, Rêve (…) — Michèle Cohen Hadria
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Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Barbara Breitenfellner
April 30, 2024 [originally published in CV113 in Fall 2019] — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Intimate Portraits — James D. Campbell
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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Andrea Szilasi
April 23, 2024 [originally published in CV113 in Fall 2019] — By James D. Campbell. Intimate Portraits brought together works by four artists whose preoccupation with the human body is a longstanding one: Donigan Cumming, JJ Levine, George Steeves, and Andrea Szilasi. Their works interrogate the nature of portraiture itself…
Denis Rioux, D’abord, ne pas photographier — Fanny Bieth et Clément Willer
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Authors: Clément Willer, Fanny Bieth | Artists: Denis Rioux
April 16, 2024 [originally published in CV113 in Fall 2019] — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Guy Tillim — Érika Nimis
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Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Guy Tillim
April 4, 2024 [originally published in CV113 in Fall 2019] — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Myriam Jacob-Allard, T’envoler — Charles Guilbert
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Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Myriam Jacob-Allard
March 22, 2024 [originally published in CV113 in Fall 2019] — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ansley West Rivers — Ariane Noël de Tilly
Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Ansley West Rivers
March 22, 2024 [originally published in CV113 in Fall 2019] — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Martha Rosler, Irrespective — Ariane Noël de Tilly
Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Martha Rosler
September 6 2023 [originally published in CV112 in Summer 2019] — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page…
Basma Alsharif — Jill Glessing
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Authors: Jill Glessing | Artists: Basma Alsharif
August 16, 2023 [originally published in CV112 in Summer 2019] — By Jill Glessing. Basma Alsharif asks a question for our time. Increasing human migration prompted by wars and climate change means, for many, an experience of cultural displacement. Born in Kuwait to Palestinian refugee parents who had fled Israeli occupation, Alsharif migrated first to France then to the United States…
Valérian Mazataud, Grand Nord — Sophie Bertrand
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Authors: Sophie Bertrand
August 2, 2023 — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Velibor Božović, In seeing, there is no right no wrong — Sylvain Campeau
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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Velibor Božović
June 28, 2023 — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Thomas Kneubühler, Absence | Landing Sites — Patrick Brian Smith
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Authors: Patrick Brian Smith | Artists: Thomas Kneubühler
June 21 2023 [originally published in CV112 in Summer 2019] — Thomas Kneubühler has always been concerned with developing new ways of visualizing – and critiquing – power formations and their related infrastructures in the late-capitalist, globalized world…
Denis Farley, Aux confins du visible — Fanny Bieth
Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Fanny Bieth | Artists: Denis Farley
June 14, 2023 [originally published in CV112 in Summer 2019] — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Vincent Meessen, Blues Klair — Érika Nimis
Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Vincent Meessen
June 7 2023 [originally published in CV112 in Summer 2019] — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Elena Perlino — Claudia Polledri
Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Elena Perlino
April 26 2023 [originally published in CV112 in Summer 2019] — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Julian Rosefeldt — James Campbell
Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Julian Rosefeldt
April 19, 2023 [originally published in CV112 in Summer 2019] — By James Campbell. Whether playing a senior CIA agent (Hanna, 2011), Elf Queen Galadriel (The Lord of the Rings, 2001 2002, 2003), or a formerly rich New York socialite on the move (Blue Jasmine, 2013), Cate Blanchett has demonstrated her acting chops and established herself as one of the wiliest and most brilliant chameleons in contemporary cinema…
Martin Désilets, Matière noire / L’index – Sylvain Campeau
Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Martin Désilets
April 3, 2019 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Pierre Blache, Les lieux suspendus — Franck Michel
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Pierre Blache
[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Jocelyn Robert, Coïncidences — Cynthia Fecteau
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Authors: Cynthia Fecteau | Artists: Jocelyn Robert
[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Taysir Batniji, Home Away From Home — Michèle Hadria
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Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Taysir Batniji
[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Raqs Media Collective, Everything Else Is Ordinary — Ariane Noël De Tilly
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Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Raqs Media Collective
[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
PHOS 2018 — Claire Moeder
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Authors: Claire Moeder | Artists: Maryse Goudreau
[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Regards critiques et nouvelle photographie — James D. Campbell
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur
November 9, 2022 [originally published in CV111 in Winter 2019] — This compelling exhibition of the works of Isabelle Hayeur, Thomas Kneubühler, Jean-François Lemire, Valerian Mazataud, and Andreas Rutkauskas was notable for the trenchant criticality of its thematic engagement with sundry social and environmental issues…
L’imaginaire radical : le contrat social — Daniel Fiset
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Daniel Fiset | Artists: Milo Rau
[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Linda Rutenberg, The Garden at Night | The Untamed Garden – Christian Roy
Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Linda Rutenberg
November 16, 2018 — Does the floral motif, so frequent throughout the history of art, still have a place in contemporary art? As a matter of fact, it did recur in a couple of Montreal exhibitions of the spring and summer of 2018. If one of these gathered artists in several mediums under this theme, this motif will be dealt with here by dwelling on two other ones, that afforded the local public an overview of the body of floral work that secured photographer Linda Rutenberg’s international reputation…
Dak’Art 2018. Focus sur la photographie – Érika Nimis
Exhibition reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Alun Be, Anastasie Langu, Babacar Traoré (Doli), Benjamin Bayienda, Émilie Régnier, Franck Fanny, Ishola Akpo, Laeïla Adjovi, Loïc Hoquet, Oumar Ka, Pierre-Christophe Gam
October 19, 2018 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Lucie Rocher, Outre mesures – Jean-Michel Quirion
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Authors: Jean-Michel Quirion | Artists: Lucie Rocher
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Joey Morgan, Attraper + Relâcher – René Viau
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Authors: René Viau | Artists: Joey Morgan
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Eva Brandl, Entre/ACTE(s) – Christian Roy
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Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Eva Brandl
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Donigan Cumming, La chambre d’Alfred et autres espaces – Julien St-Georges Tremblay
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Authors: Julien St-Georges Tremblay | Artists: Donigan Cumming
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Anne-Marie Proulx, Les falaises se rapprochent – Nathalie Bachand
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Authors: Nathalie Bachand | Artists: Anne-Marie Proulx
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Femmes Photographes du Monde Arabe – Claudia Polledri
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Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Rania Matar
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Andreas Gursky – Sylvain Campeau
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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Andreas Gursky
[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
David Goldblatt, Rétrospective – Érika Nimis
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Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: David Goldblatt
[Fall 2018] —This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Jacynthe Carrier, Paysage : Faire le jour – Sylvain Campeau
Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Jacynthe Carrier
September 10, 2018 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Myriam Yates, Gander Islands – Sylvain Campeau
Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Myriam Yates
15 mai 2018 — Originally published in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Kotama Bouabane, We’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slow – Robert Anderson
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Robert Anderson | Artists: Kotama Bouabane
August 24, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 2018] — If you think the title of Laotian-born, Canadian-raised artist Kotama Bouabane’s recent show at VU, We’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slow, sounds suspiciously like a lyric from a bad pop song, you’d be right. The title is from the song “Kokomo” by the Beach Boys…
Malick Sidibé, Mali Twist – Érika Nimis
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Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Malick Sidibé
August 31, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Masako Miyazaki, 木 – A tree – John K. Grande
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Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Masako Miyazaki
September 7, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 2018] — Masako Miyazaki’s photography show titled A Tree complements her poetry. Some of the images were made in forests, fields, and landscapes on Montreal’s south shore, and others were made in Japan. Whether in Japan or Quebec, the landscape remains Miyazaki’s constant point of reference…
Janie Julien-Fort – Christian Roy
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Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Janie Julien-Fort
Septembre 14, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Natascha Niederstrass, Behind Closed Doors: Body of Evidence | Le point aveugle – James D. Campbell
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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Natascha Niederstrass
September 21, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 2018] — Over the last several years, at exhibitions in Montreal and elsewhere, Montreal-based photographic artist Natascha Niederstrass has earned a strong reputation for informing her work with forensic-photography aesthetics and infusing it with a full measure of chilling, even spine-tingling, premises and implications…
Bill Viola – Sylvain Campeau
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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bill Viola
September 28, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Daniel Canty, Longuay – Geneviève Chevalier
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Authors: Geneviève Chevalier | Artists: Daniel Canty
October 5, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Gold and Silver, Images and Illusions of the Gold Rush – Johanna Mizgala
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Authors: Johanna Mizgala
Octobre 12, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — During a ten-year period that began in 1848, the rush to California in the mad hope of striking it rich was intertwined with the burgeoning ability to make a living through the new technology of photography…
Katia Gosselin – Michaël Lachance
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Authors: Michaël Lachance | Artists: Katia Gosselin
April 6, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Sylvie Readman, À contretemps II : site spécifique – James D. Campbell
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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Sylvie Readman
April 20, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — In this photographic essay, Sylvie Readman brilliantly addresses the strange topography of the abandoned military base at Saint-Hubert, Quebec, in terms of non-place and liminal space. Her fortuitous discovery of this site has resulted in some of her most memorable images to date…
Ismaïl Bahri – Mirna Boyadjian
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Authors: Mirna Boyadjian | Artists: Ismaïl Bahri
April 27, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Anne-Marie Proulx — Carmen Victor
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Authors: Carmen Victor | Artists: Anne-Marie Proulx
May 4, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — Innu-aimun is a language spoken by Innu (Montagnais-Naskapi) peoples across boreal and sub-Arctic areas of Labrador and eastern Quebec. Quebec City artist and photographer Anne-Marie Proulx selected the Innu-aimun word Aiminanu, which translates to “there is a conversation going on” as the title of a exhibition at YYZ Artists’ Outlet in Toronto…
Chih-Chien Wang – Sylvain Campeau
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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Chih-Chien Wang
April 11, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Skulptur Projekte Münster – Lon Dubinsky
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Authors: Lon Dubinsky | Artists: Andreas Bunte, Ayşe Erkmen, Koki Tanaka
May 18, 2021 [originally published only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — The fifth Skulptur Projekte Münster was held in spring and summer, as were documenta 14 and the Venice Biennale, making Europe a very desirable destination in the art world in 2017. The Münster event has taken place every ten years since 1977…
Rencontre photographique du Kamouraska – Mona Hakim
Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Baptiste Grison, Louis Perreault, Martin Schop
April 11, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Fondation Louis Vuitton – Érika Nimis
Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: David Goldblatt, Meleko Mokgosi, Sue Williamson
June 1, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
A Handful of Dust – John K. Grande
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Authors: John K. Grande
January 20, 2020 [originally published in CV107 in Fall 2017] — Everything vanishes and yet it all remains, changed somehow, interpreted differently: ashes to ashes, dust to dust. A Handful of Dust is a show that has a mysterious point of departure that is as much about the ambiguities of art in photography as it is about the way art fuses, morphs, reinvents conceptions, how it is a process long before and after realization…
Pauline Boudry et Renate Lorenz – Milly-Alexandra Dery et Laurence Garneau
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Authors: Laurence Garneau, Milly-Alexandra Dery | Artists: Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz
October 13, 2020 [originally published in French only in CV107 in Fall 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Peter Campus – Michèle Cohen Hadria
Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Peter Campus
October 20, 2020 [originally published in French only in CV107 in Fall 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Sara A. Tremblay et Léna Mill-Reuillard – Sylvain Campeau
Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Léna Mill-Reuillard, Sara A. Tremblay
October 27, 2020 [originally published in French only in CV107 in Fall 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Serge Tousignant – Christian Roy
Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Serge Tousignant
November 3, 2020 [originally published in French only in CV107 in Fall 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Vide et Vertige – James D. Campbell
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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Ivan Binet, Jocelyne Alloucherie, Mathieu Cardin
November 10, 2020 [originally published in CV107 in Fall 2017] — This exhibition of works by Jocelyne Alloucherie, Ivan Binet, and Mathieu Cardin was brilliantly dovetailed in terms of theme and installed with consummate finesse in mortise-and-tenon fashion from floor to floor in all the gallery spaces.
Evergon et Jean-Jacques Ringuette – Karl-Gilbert Murray
Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Karl-Gilbert Murray | Artists: Evergon, Jean-Jacques Ringuette
November 17, 2020 [originally published in French only in CV107 in Fall 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Nelson Henricks – Charles Guilbert
Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Nelson Henricks
November 24, 2020 [originally published in French only in CV107 in Fall 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Perpetual Revolution – Daniel Fiset
Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Daniel Fiset
December 1, 2020 [originally published in French only in CV107 in Fall 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Manon Labrecque – Sylvain Campeau
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Manon Labrecque
May 26, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Matthieu Brouillard – Jean-Pierre Vidal
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-Pierre Vidal | Artists: Matthieu Brouillard
June 2, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Fiona Annis, Les révolutions sidérales – James D. Campbell
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Fiona Annis
June 9, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — In the photoworks in this exhibition, Fiona Annis dilated with poetic acuity on the clockwork of the heavens. She mined resources as varied and recondite as the first spectroscopic data on the trajectory of Halley’s Comet, recorded in 1910, and Binary Stars: A Pictorial Atlas, 1992…
Leila Alaoui – Claudia Polledri
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Leila Alaoui
June 20, 2017 [originally published in French in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
James Welling, Chronology – Stephen Horne
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: James Welling
June 16, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — This exhibition presented a selection of work from Welling’s early days in the 1970s and from recent production. The artist’s principal interests lie in the area of photographic materiality and some of its attendant themes – colour, technologies, and abstraction – and to the social relations inherent in the production and circulation of photographs…
Jacynthe Carrier – Sylvain Campeau
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Jacynthe Carrier
June 18, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
La Biennale de Montréal – Érika Nimis
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis
June 23, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Robert Mapplethorpe – Philippe Guillaume
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Philippe Guillaume | Artists: Robert Mapplethorpe
June 25, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — The Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition Focus Perfection, which opened last fall at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, was a lavish retrospective dedicated to the controversial New York artist who took up photography in 1970 with a borrowed Polaroid camera…
Jean-François LeBlanc. Revisiting Montreal’s Backstage at the End of a Century – Tema Stauffer
Exhibition reviews
Authors: Tema Stauffer | Artists: Jean-François Leblanc
March 1, 2017 — A retrospective of ninety-five black-and-white photographs by Jean-François LeBlanc was recently exhibited at Maison de la culture Côtes-des-Neiges, presenting a look back at a fertile decade of life in Montreal beginning in the mid-1980s…
Holly King – Christian Roy
Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Holly King
March 25, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Mutations – Sylvain Campeau
Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard, Isabelle Hayeur, Sébastien Cliche
March 31, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Rencontre Photographique du Kamouraska – Pierre Dessureault
Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Pierre Dessureault
April 2, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Loin des Yeux – Daniel Fiset
Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Daniel Fiset
April 7, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Harry Callahan – Ariane Noël De Tilly
Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Harry Callahan
April 14, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
The Edge of the Earth – Leo Hsu
Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Leo Hsu | Artists: Adrien Missika, Paul Walde
April 16, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — The Edge of the Earth: Climate Change in Photography and Video grapples with our changing understanding of the connection between human activity and the destiny of this planet. The title does not begin to suggest the exhibition’s ambitions, which go far beyond surveying work related to climate change…
Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles – Erika Nimis
Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Ethan Levitas, William Kentridge, Zanele Muholi
April 21, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Caroline Hayeur et D. Kimm – Jean Gagnon
Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean Gagnon | Artists: Caroline Hayeur, D. Kimm
April 23, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Bonnie Baxter – Hélène Brunet Neumann
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Hélène Brunet Neumann | Artists: Bonnie Baxter
January 29, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Mashup: The Birth of Modern Culture – Ariane Noël De Tilly
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly | Artists: Barbara Kruger, Hannah Höch, Hito Steyerl
February 3, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Marie-Claire Blais et Pascal Grandmaison – Sylvain Campeau
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Marie-Claire Blais, Pascal Grandmaison
February 5, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Thomas Ruff, Object Relations – Jill Glessing
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jill Glessing | Artists: Thomas Ruff
February 10, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — A desire to produce and circulate images drove the invention of photography. Almost two centuries later, the dream verges on nightmare as archivists and image theorists scramble to find space and meaning for all the photographs that have been produced. It’s a good time for collectors…
Bettina Hoffmann – Guillaume Lafleur
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Guillaume Lafleur | Artists: Bettina Hoffmann
February 12, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Emanuel Licha – Stephen Horne
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Exhibition reviews
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
Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Exhibition reviews
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…
5e édition des Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie – Serge Allaire
Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Serge Allaire | Artists: Rozenn Quéré, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh
April 18, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Roman Vishniac, De Berlin à New York, 1920-1975 – Ada Ackerman
Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Ada Ackerman | Artists: Roman Vishniac
April 23, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Kathleen Ritter, Camoufleurs – James D. Campbell
Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Kathleen Ritter
April 24, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — This captivating exhibition of work by Kathleen Ritter is aptly and enticingly titled Camoufleurs. A camoufleur was a person – usually an artist, usually a woman – who designed and installed military camouflage in one of the world wars of the last century. The term relates to all First and Second World War specialists in the art of camouflage…
James Benning – Guillaume Lafleur
Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Guillaume Lafleur | Artists: James Benning
April 29, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.