The Walther Collection: The Way She Looks — Jill Glessing

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Authors: Jill Glessing | Artists: Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin, David Goldblatt, Guy Tillim, Jodi Bieber

[Winter 2020] Ryerson Image Centre, Guest curator: Sandrine Colard September 11–December 8, 2019 By Jill Glessing Photography extends the gaze, making material its spectrum of desires and subject positions – whether violence, control, submission, negotiation, or resistance. Once etched as image – on plate, print, or screen – the momentary exchange circulates and is entrenched […]

Le projet Polaroid — Sophie Bertrand

Ciel variable 114 - MASSES | MONUMENTS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sophie Bertrand | Artists: André Kertész, Bruce Charlesworth, Ellen Carey, Kunihiro Shinohara, Paolo Gioli, Toshio Shibata

[Winter 2020] Le projet Polaroid – Art et technologie Musée McCord, Montréal Du 13 juin au 15 septembre 2019 Par Sophie Bertrand (French only) Purchase this issue

Territoires II — Christian Roy

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Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Andreas Rutkauskas, Gagnon-Forest, Hua Jin

[Winter 2020] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie La Castiglione, Montréal Du 28 août au 28 septembre 2019 Par Christian Roy (French only) Purchase this issue

Michel Depatie — Alexia Pinto Ferretti

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Authors: Alexia Pinto Ferretti | Artists: Michel Depatie

[Winter 2020] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Ashu-Takusseu : la traversée photographique Centre d’exposition de Val-David Du 22 juin au 8 septembre 2019 Par Alexia Pinto Ferretti (French only) Purchase this issue

Biennale de Venise 2019 — Daniel Fiset

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Authors: Daniel Fiset | Artists: Isuma, Mari Katayama, Tamás Waliczky, Voluspa Jarpa, Zanele Muholi

[Winter 2020] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. May You Live in Interesting Times May 11 to November 24 2019 By Daniel Fiset Purchase this issue

Yan Giguère, Suite cinétique — Stéphanie Hornstein

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Authors: Stéphanie Hornstein | Artists: Yan Giguère

[Hiver 2020] Galerie La Castiglione May 15–June 15, 2019 By Stéphanie Hornstein The day that I first make it to Yan Giguère’s solo show at Galerie La Castiglione, Montreal’s construction season is in full swing. St. Catherine Street is a gaping trench and the jackhammer’s thrum hounds me all the way up four flights of […]

Janick Burn — Marie-Ève Leclerc-Parker

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Authors: Marie-Ève Leclerc-Parker | Artists: Janick Burn

[Winter 2020] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Plein sud, Longueuil Du 18 mai au 22 juin 2019 Par Marie-Ève Leclerc-Parker (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale throughout […]

Rebecca Belmore — Sophie Guignard

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Authors: Sophie Guignard | Artists: Rebecca Belmore

[Winter 2020] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Braver le monumental Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal Commissaire : Wanda Nanibush Du 20 juin au 6 octobre 2019 Par Sophie Guignard (French only) [See the printed or digital version of […]

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.

Adam Basanta

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.’ …

Deanna Bowen, Hajra Waheed, Jacqueline Hóang Nguyễn, Krista Belle Stewart, Morris Lum

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Martin Désilets

Pierre Blache, Les lieux suspendus — Franck Michel

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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

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Exhibition reviews
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

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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…

Linda Rutenberg

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.

Alun Be, Anastasie Langu, Babacar Traoré (Doli), Benjamin Bayienda, Émilie Régnier, Franck Fanny, Ishola Akpo, Laeïla Adjovi, Loïc Hoquet, Oumar Ka, Pierre-Christophe Gam

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.

Jacynthe Carrier

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.

Myriam Yates

Kotama Bouabane, We’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slow – Robert Anderson

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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…

Jean-François Leblanc

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.