William Kentridge, Five Themes – Stephen Horne

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Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: William Kentridge

September 29, 2016 [originally published in French only in Winter 2011] — A resurrection of hand-drawn film animation as a procedure to be presented in museum installations in this era of digital abstraction is a brilliant move. The simplicity of this strategy highlights the delusion resident in the efforts of so many contemporary artists to produce a critical art practice using technologically “advanced” techniques. In many cases, these attempts simply play a role in confirming the cultural status quo.

Jocelyne Alloucherie, Climats – René Viau

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Authors: René Viau | Artists: Jocelyne Alloucherie

4 octobre 2016 [originellement publié à l’hiver 2011] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Bodies in Trouble / Corps en péril – Carol Payne

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Authors: Carol Payne | Artists: Gretta Pratt, Lana Slezic, Yves Klein

October 6, 2016 [originally published in French only in Winter 2011] — A limp body brought back to life, a figure leaping impossibly into the air, a gun wielded by a faceless hand: with images like these, “Bodies in Trouble,” Galerie SAW Gallery’s concise but ambitious exhibition of photo-based work, explores the body, performance, media, and danger. Mounted as part of Festival X, Ottawa’s biennial city-wide photography festival, “Bodies in Trouble” pairs photojournalistic images with performance art, implicitly critiquing the news image and stressing a visual poetics through juxtapositions of these forms.

William Eggleston, Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: William Eggleston

June 14, 2015 [originally published in French only Fall 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Laurent Guérin, Samayou – John K. Grande

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Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Laurent Guérin

June 16, 2016 [originally published in Fall 2010] — World Press Photo included his [Laurent Guérin] photographs of street children in India in a show held at the Maison de la Culture Frontenac in Montreal in 2004. These photographs – in which all the chaos and beauty of India, from street life to more contemplative imagery, are captured – became the book Hindi Pop.

Donigan Cumming, Kincora – Matthieu Brouillard

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Authors: Matthieu Brouillard | Artists: Donigan Cumming

June 21, 2016 [originally published in French in Fall 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Péripéties – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Bettina Hoffmann, Carlos & Jason Sanchez, Chih-Chien Wang, Eve K. Tremblay, Milutin Gubash

June 23, 2016 [originally published in Fall 2010] — This exhibition highlights narrative disruption and its consequences in five mature bodies of photographic and video work, and demonstrates how the uncanny seeps in and out of those ruptures in an auratic and seismic way, even as meaning and dénouement are delayed. Works by Bettina Hoffman, Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Milutin Gubash, Eve K. Tremblay, and Chih-Chien Wang…

Shirin Neshat et Shoja Azari, Women Without Men – Mylène Joly

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Authors: Mylène Joly | Artists: Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari

June 28, 2016 [originally published in French in Fall 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Living Things, Carte grise à Roy Arden – Stephen Horne

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Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Moyra Davey, Roy Arden

June 29, 2016 [originally published in Fall 2010] — True to its title, this exhibition consists of photographic images grouped thematically by way of their subject, “living things.” In this case, the sample extends from images of algae in a pond, to a dog’s foot, to a family portrait. What these photographs all have in common is that they are “of” some “thing,” they all depict a living thing (with the exception of one dead rabbit)…

Emanuel Licha, Pourquoi photogénique ? – Virginie Doré Lemonde

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Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde | Artists: Emanuel Licha

July 5, 2016 [originally published in French only in Fall 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Esther Shalev-Gerz, Ton image me regarde ? – Elizabeth Matheson

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Authors: Elizabeth Matheson | Artists: Esther Shalev-Gerz

July 7, 2016 [originally published in Fall 2010] — Within participatory arts there is often an implicit, yet compelling, assumption that media and public attention to issues that figure into public art attest to their social significance, while lack of interest evidences their irrelevance. That which is not spoken of, it seems, is assumed to have little or no consequence. However, as Esther Shalev-Gerz knows, it is often silent moments, ones that not only shape private lives…

Pascal Dufaux, Le cosmos dans lequel nous sommes – Jean Gagnon

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Authors: Jean Gagnon | Artists: Pascal Dufaux

July 11, 2016 [originally published in French only in Fall 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Raymonde April, Equivalences 1-4 – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Raymonde April

April 6, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — Why is it that Raymonde April’s art always occupies the foreground of my consciousness when I think about photography – about what it is and what it can be ? Even as flashier and more graphically cinematographic photography rules the proverbial roost in the art world right now, April, a maverick artist, has long since staked out her territory and made it her wholly and uniquely her own.

Isabelle Hayeur, L’envers du décor – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur

April 14, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Entracte : films d’un futur héroïque – Virginie Doré Lemonde

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Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde

April 18, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

La subversion des images : Surréalisme, photographie, film – Matthieu Brouillard

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Authors: Matthieu Brouillard | Artists: BrassaÏ, Claude Cahun

April 21, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Contrainte / Restraint – Jean Gagnon

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Authors: Jean Gagnon | Artists: José Carlos Martinat

April 25, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

David Hoffos, Scenes from the House Dream – Petra Halkes

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Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: David Hoffos

April 28, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — Despite the impending calamities hidden in many of the works in Scenes from the House Dream, David Hoffos’s gathering of twenty installations into one, dark, enveloping space feels warm and fuzzy. True, a monster lurks under a boat, vapours rise in a noisy forest, and snow drifts through the open windows of a deserted house, but the exhibition curated by Shirley Madill remains appealing and enchanting.

Nelson Henricks – Charles Guilbert

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Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Nelson Henricks

May 2, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Eija-Liisa Ahtila, INT-SCÈNE-JOUR – Colette Tougas

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Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Eija-Liisa Ahtila

May 5, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Chuck Samuels, Before Photography – Virginie Doré Lemonde

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Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde | Artists: Chuck Samuels

May 9, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Art et activisme, Un monde dans lequel plusieurs mondes s’inscrivent – René Viau

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Authors: René Viau | Artists: Gregory Sholette, John Jordan

May 12, 2016 [originally published in French only in Summer 2010] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Matthieu Brouillard, La Résurrection / Les Enfants de la symétrie brisée – Jean-Pierre Vidal

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Authors: Jean-Pierre Vidal | Artists: Matthieu Brouillard

[Spring 2010] 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 Du 3 septembre au 9 octobre 2009

The Edge of Vision – John K. Grande

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Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Chris McCaw, Michael Flomen

[Spring 2010] The Rise of Abstraction in Photography Galerie Pangée, Montreal September 15 to October 12, 2009 Culled from a much larger exhibition at Aperture Gallery in New York, curated by Lyle Rexer, author of, among others, How to Look at Outsider Art,1 The Edge of Vision is a very special show that touches on […]

Gwenaël Bélanger, Casser l’image – Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre

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Authors: Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre | Artists: Gwenaël Bélanger

[Spring 2010] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Casser l’image Expression, centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe Du 7 novembre au 20 décembre 2009

Jason DodgeJason Dodge et Rob Kovitz, Into Black… et pas blanc comme neige – Virginie Doré Lemonde

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Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde | Artists: Jason Dodge, Rob Kovitz

[Spring 2010] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Jason Dodge et Rob Kovitz Dazibao centre de photographies actuelles, Montréal Du 24 octobre au 28 novembre 2009

Michael Schreier, Storyteller / Waiting for Words – Judith Parker

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Authors: Judith Parker | Artists: Michael Schreier

[Spring 2010] The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa September 10 to November 15, 2009. Disquieting, painterly, poetic – these words come to mind on viewing Michael Schreier’s series of large-scale grey/blue/purple semi-abstract photographs, Disappearing Numbers (2007-20-09), and Or-Sarua (2009), which portray empty bunker-like interiors quietly resonating with a sense of tragedy. Despite their softened forms and […]

Nicholas et Sheila Pye, Vanitas – Nathalie Guimond

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Authors: Nathalie Guimond | Artists: Nicholas Pye, Sheila Pye

[Spring 2010] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal Du 15 août au 12 septembre 2009

Guido Guidi, Carlo Scarpa’s Tomba Brion: Photographs by Guido Guidi, 1997–2007 – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Guido Guidi

[Spring 2010] CCA, Montreal September 11, 2009, to January 10, 2010 Nestled within the CCA’s Octagonal Gallery in conceptually elegant fashion, this thematic body of photographic work by the Italian photographer Guido Guidi paid tribute to an architectural masterwork while highlighting his own various strengths and idiosyncrasies as a creative artist preoccupied, for the last […]

Yan Giguère, Attractions – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Yan Giguère

[Spring 2010] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Optica, Montréal Du 12 septembre au 17 octobre 2009

Chantal Gervais, Cindy Stelmackowich, Sarah Sudhoff, Rx – Corina Ilea

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Authors: Corina Ilea | Artists: Chantal Gervais, Cindy Stelmackowich, Sarah Sudhoff

[Fall 2009] In Plain Sight Gallery, Montreal April 18 to May 23, 2009 The Rx exhibition, curated by Penny Cousineau-Levine and Zoe Casino at the In Plain Sight Gallery in Montreal, explores the inherent conflicts aroused by the intrusions of medical devices and representations into the construction of identity. The presupposed neutrality and innocence of […]

Bertrand Carrière et Serge Clément, Chemin faisant – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière, Serge Clément

[Fall 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Simon Blais, Montréal Du 10 juin au 1er août 2009

Sylvie Readman, S’absenter – Philippe Guillaume

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Authors: Philippe Guillaume | Artists: Sylvie Readman

[Fall 2009] Occurrence, Espace d’Art, and d’Essai Contemporain, Montreal May 14 to June 13, 2009 Sylvie Readman traveled to Argentina to create the core elements for her latest project, S’absenter (2009), exhibited recently at Espace Occurrence in Montreal. The refined and masterful seven photographs and three videos that form this project invite the viewer into […]

Road Runners – René Viau

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Authors: René Viau | Artists: John Massey, Roman Signer

[Automne 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal Du 6 mars au 30 mai 2009

Scott McFarland, A Cultivated View – John Grande

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Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Scott McFarland

[Fall 2009] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa April 11 to September 13, 2009 Given his avid interest in gardening, west coast photographer Scott McFarland addresses the landscape with his photographs. Is he acutely aware of the history of landscape in art? The thirty-six works on view in this […]

La Biennale de Venise, Les petites nations – Michèle Cohen Hadria

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Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Jamshed Kholikov, Paolo William Tamburella, Taysir Batniji

[Fall 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Les petites nations Du 7 juin au 22 novembre 2009

Venice Biennale. Mark Lewis, Atta Kim, Fiona Tan – Jean-François Bélisle

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Authors: Jean-François Bélisle | Artists: Atta Kim, Fiona Tan, Mark Lewis

[Fall 2009] June 7 to November 22, 2009 The constellation of temporary exhibitions, national representations, and thematic exhibitions that take over Venice for the first week of June every other year is usually a grand affair that defies any type of human scale. Surprisingly, that was largely untrue this year. Perhaps as a side effect […]

Thomas Kneubühler, Electric Mountains – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Thomas Kneubühler

[Fall 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Projex-Mtl Galerie, Montréal Du 30 avril au 20 juin 2009

Tony Fouhse, USER: Portraits of Crack Addicts – Emily Falvey

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Authors: Emily Falvey | Artists: Tony Fouhse

[Fall 2009] iPs Gallery Montreal June 6 to 27, 2009 Crack cocaine is the classic drug of addiction nightmares: it gets you high for five or ten minutes, and then haunts you for the rest of your life. The most addictive form of any drug, crack turns most of its users into dependents, the majority […]

Harun Faroki et Rodney Graham, HF|RG – Cyril Thomas

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Authors: Cyril Thomas | Artists: Harun Farocki, Rodney Graham

[Fall 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Jeu de Paume, Paris Du 7 avril au 7 juin 2009

Manon De Pauw, Intrigues – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Manon De Pauw

[Fall 2009] Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal February 27 to March 28, 2009 Manon De Pauw practices a corporeal poetics as inventive and involute in its physical articulation as it is varied and inviting in its philosophical approach. Her manner of thinking the body – the “universal thing” – sheds light on the meaning of corporeality […]

Silvia Kolbowski, Rien et tout – Vincent Bonin

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Authors: Vincent Bonin | Artists: Silvia Kolbowski

[Summer 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Leonard et Bina Ellen, Montréal 30 janvier au 7 mars 2009

Paul-Antoine Pichard, Trash Mines – John K. Grande

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Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Paul-Antoine Pichard

[Summer 2009] Galerie d’art du Centre Culturel Université de Sherbrooke January 12 to February 22, 2009 Previously exhibited at Cirque du Soleil’s TOHU Espace SSQ, Paul-Antoine Pichard’s photographs of people who live amid trash, in the scarred landscapes that they are a part of, reveal scarred, aged, disfigured victims of the conditions imposed on them […]

Carlos et Jason Sanchez, Œuvres choisies (2002-2007) – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Carlos & Jason Sanchez

[Summer 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Maison des arts de Laval Du 27 septembre au 24 novembre 2008 Commissaire : Madeleine Therrien

Roger Ballen, Boarding House – Gary Michael Dault

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Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Roger Ballen

[Summer 2009] OCAD Professional Gallery, Toronto March 5 – May 31, 2009 Everything is decay in Roger Ballen’s photographs: floors, walls, toothless mouths, and lank, rancid hair. Their only “beauty” (as we warily call it) – purloined from painterly, graffiti-wired photographs of the past (Siskind, Brassai, etc.) – is inventively and mercilessly imposed, in the […]

Bas Jan Ader, Gravité – René Viau

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Authors: René Viau | Artists: Bas Jan Ader

[Summer 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Dazibao, centre de photographies actuelles, Montréal Du 8 janvier au 21 février 2009 Commissariat : France Choinière

Thomas Corriveau, Autofictions – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Thomas Corriveau

[Summer 2009] Galerie Graff November 13 to December 20, 2008 We are living in a telematically attuned present tense. We are bombarded, even besieged, by endless streaming images and data feeds coming in from all sides, all the time. How we fend off the barrage or negotiate détente with it shapes the condition of our […]

Reno Salvail, Les rivières de feu – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Reno Salvail

[Summer 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre VU Du 10 octobre au 9 novembre 2008

Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists – Guy Sioui Durand

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Authors: Guy Sioui Durand | Artists: Arthur Renwick, Dana Claxton, Jeff Thomas, Shelley Niro

[Summer 2009] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa October 31, 2008 – March 22, 2009 What if sacred masks and the geopolitical pomp of costumes had preceded posed portraits and scenes for the camera? Then, in the photographic gaze, not only would there be different works, but there would […]

Tim Clark, Reading the Limits. Works 1975–2003 – Cheryl Simon

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Authors: Cheryl Simon | Artists: Tim Clark

[Spring 2009] Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery Concordia University, Montreal October 23–November 29, 2008 Curator: David Tomas, with the collaboration of Michèle Thériault and Eduardo Ralickas The commingling of academia and art in Tim Clark’s conceptual practice is announced at the outset of his recent retrospective exhibition with the installation of a small shelf […]

Un capitalisme sentimental d’Olivier Asselin – Virginie Doré Lemonde

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Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde | Artists: Olivier Asselin

[Spring 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Molly Landreth, Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America – Erin Silver

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Authors: Erin Silver | Artists: Molly Landreth

IPS gallery, Montreal November 1 – December 20, 2008 From Barack Obama’s gay-inclusive acceptance speech to the controversial passing of the Prop. 8 ban on gay marriage, the lives of gay Americans are, for better or for worse, on the public radar in the United States. Molly Landreth moves beyond party platforms and ballot boxes, embarking on […]

Life on Mars, 55th Carnegie International – Jacob Korczynski

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Authors: Jacob Korczynski | Artists: Rivane Neuenschwander, Sharon Lockhart, Wolfgang Tillmans

[Spring 2009] Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 3, 2008–January 11, 2009 Despite fulfilling several different roles during its century-plus history, the Carnegie International exists today as a quadrennial exhibition of international contemporary art. This second-oldest exhibition of its kind opened just months after the first edition of the Venice Biennale, but today the Carnegie International is only […]

Signals in the Dark, La pratique artistique à l’ombre de la guerre – Elitza Dulguerova

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Authors: Elitza Dulguerova | Artists: Johan Grimonprez, Köken Ergun

[Spring 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Leonard et Bina Ellen, Université Concordia 29 août au 11 octobre 2008 Commissaire : Séamus Kealy (Blackwood Gallery, Université de Toronto / Mississauga)

Richard Misrach, On the Beach – Johanna Mizgala

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Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Richard Misrach

[Spring 2009] Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington 11 October 2008 – 18 January 2009 Over the past three decades, Richard Misrach has created a body of work that attempts to reconcile his two lifelong passions: a socio-political activism forged during his student days at Berkeley in the late 1960s and an affinity for images of […]

6* Émissaires, Québec réinventée par la photographie actuelle – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur, Ivan Binet, Mathieu Beauséjour, Patrick Altman

[Spring 2009] 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 19 juin au 10 août 2008

Next Floor, Court métrage de Denis Villeneuve – Virgine Doré Lemonde

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Authors: Virginie Doré Lemonde | Artists: Denis Villeneuve

[Fall 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Phi Group, Montréal

Imaging a Shattering Earth, Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate – John K. Grande

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Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: David McMillan, John Ganis, Robert ParkeHarrison, Shana ParkeHarrison

[Fall 2008] National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa June 27–October 13, 2008 A more timely exhibition of photography there never was. And with a shock-primed title such as Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate, one is put on edge from the beginning. Although the bias in the photographs is toward documentary and […]

Éliane Excoffier, Kiev – Norman F. Cornett

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Authors: Norman F. Cornett | Artists: Éliane Excoffier

[Fall 2008] Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal February 27 – March 29, 2008 Although we can still see the etymological relationship between the modern term “technology” and the ancient Greek word techne, nowadays we generally lose sight of its original meaning – art, craft, skill. Éliane Excoffier’s latest show at Galerie Simon Blais reminds us that […]

Yann Pocreau, Les dialogues acrobatiques – Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre

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Authors: Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre | Artists: Yann Pocreau

[Fall 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal 19 avril au 24 mai 2008

Between Memory and History Contact Photography Festival – Jean-François Bélisle

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Authors: Jean-François Bélisle | Artists: Luc Delahaye, Martin Parr, Robert Burley

[Fall 2008] Contact Photography Festival Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto May 1 – 31, 2008 On a bright Saturday morning back in early May, I came upon a strange sight on Queen Street West. In front of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MoCCA), and spilling onto the sidewalk, a considerable crowd had gathered […]

Rose-Marie E. Goulet avec la collaboration de Chantal Dumas, Point de fuite – Sylvie Lacerte

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Authors: Sylvie Lacerte | Artists: Rose-Marie E. Goulet

[Fall 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Voiture de métro de Montréal 24 septembre 2007 au 31 mars 2008

Emmanuelle Léonard, L’Annonciation – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard

[Fall 2008] Donald Browne Galery, Montreal April 19–May 24, 2008 In her new exhibition at Galerie Donald Browne, Emmanuel Léonard made her consummately subversive voice heard from the outset. Her singular art of juxtaposition, theatricality, gathered “evidence,” and narrative layering once again adumbrated an environmental volume that radically exceeded the sum of its parts. The […]

Nelson Henricks, Le plan de la ville – Colette Tougas

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Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Nelson Henricks

[Fall 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Articule, Montréal 29 février au 30 mars 2008

Geoffrey James, Utopia/Dystopia – Johanna Mizgala

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Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Geoffrey James

[Fall 2008] National Gallery of Canada May 30 – October 19, 2008 Geoffrey James describes his photographs as the outcome of “walks with purpose.” His approach is both methodically and philosophically in opposition to the wanderings ascribed to other photographers interested in the landscape and in urban environments, who trust in happening upon inspiration in […]

Richard Baillargeon, Les marques de l’exsangue

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Richard Baillargeon

[Fall 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Expression, St-Hyacinthe 15 mars au 27 avril 2008 Commissaire : Lisanne Nadeau

Susan Meiselas, Intimate Strangers – Gary Michael Dault

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Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Susan Meiselas

[Fall 2008] Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto March 29 – April 26, 2008 Intimate Strangers could be seen as a revisitation and continuation of a world of documentary exploration that began thirty-five years ago for Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas, with her Carnival Strippers project. Carnival Strippers came about when Meiselas attached herself to a “girl show” […]

Cheryl Pagurek, Ephemera – Petra Halkes

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Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Cheryl Pagurek

[Summer 2008] Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa, January 9 – February 3, 2008 Over the years, Cheryl Pagurek’s art practice has gradually shifted from sculpture and installations to printed photographs and, finally, in the present exhibition, to the ultimate Ephemera of moving digital imagery. The more fleeting her work becomes, however, the more strongly it shows […]

Lida Abdul – Sadira Rodrigues

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Authors: Sadira Rodrigues | Artists: Lida Abdul

[Summer 2008] Centre A & Western Front, Vancouver January 23 – March 1, 2008 Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1973, Lida Abdul lived in Germany and India as a refugee after being forced to leave her homeland following the Soviet invasion of 1980. This brief biography seems critical, as it is an integral subject in […]

Clara Gutsche & David Miller, Retour de Rome – Julie-Ann Latulippe

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Authors: Julie-Ann Latulippe | Artists: Clara Gutsche, David Miller

[Summer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Charles Gagnon – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Charles Gagnon

[Summer 2008] Galerie Roger Bellemare, Montreal October 6 – October 27, 2007 The stark elegance of Charles Gagnon’s photographic oeuvre is one of its defining characteristics. It is always, however, underscored by powerfully enigmatic markers. Those indexical markers are like fingers pointing to unseen presences – or a transcendent reality. Gagnon was always a champion […]

Alain Laframboise, Parcours – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alain Laframboise

[Summer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Made in Tehran – Six Women’s Views – Maria Zimmermann Brendel

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Authors: Maria Zimmermann Brendel | Artists: Mehraneh Atashi, Shadi Ghadirian

[Summer 2008] Cicero Galerie for Political Photography, Berlin, Germany November 20, 2007 – January 18, 2008 The interest in the exhibition Made in Tehran: Six Women’s Views was immense. This is not surprising with photography by artists who call themselves “the children of the [Islamic] Revolution.” They are the next generation, after Shirin Neshat, and […]

ReConstitutions – Jean-François Bélisle

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Authors: Jean-François Bélisle | Artists: Kerry Tribe, Nancy Davenport

[Summer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. DHC – Art, Montréal, 22 février – 25 mai 2008

Pascal Grandmaison, Le grand jour – Johanna Mizgala

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Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Pascal Grandmaison

[Summer 2008] Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa January 14 – April 13, 2008 A rupture occurs when an action is played out in its conventional sequence and then witnessed in reverse. The action’s asynchronous interconnection serves as a narrative and visual conceit; time runs forwards and backwards in a rearward déjà vu. In static form, […]

Gilles Mahé – Vincent Bonin

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Authors: Vincent Bonin | Artists: Gilles Mahé

[SUmmer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. VOX, centre de l’image, Montréal 26 janvier – 15 mars, 2007

Archive Fever – Maria Antonella Pelizzari

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Authors: Maria Antonella Pelizzari | Artists: Fazal Sheikh, Tacita Dean

[Summer 2008] International Center of Photography, New York, January 18 – May 4, 2008 An overall sense of clutter and discomfort pervades the installation of Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, the current exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP) curated by Okui Enwenzor and modlelled on Jacques Derrida’s seminal essay […]

Susan Bozic, The Dating Portfolio – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Susan Bozic

[Spring 2008] Galerie Art Mur, Montreal August 18 – September 22, 2007 Susan Bozic’s latest series, The Dating Portfolio, elicits easy, involuntary smiles but poses a serious question or two that leave the viewer in an interrogatory frame of mind. Bozic appears in each of these medium-to-large-scale photographs in the company of a plastic (clothed) […]

Jocelyn Philibert, Surréel – Jean-Pierre Vidal

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Authors: Jean-Pierre Vidal | Artists: Jocelyn Philibert

[Fall 2008] 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 23 août – 21 septembre

Greg Girard, New Works – Andrea Carson

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Authors: Andrea Carson | Artists: Greg Girard

[Fall 2008] Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto September 20 – November 18, 2007 Like those of many of his Vancouver contemporaries, Greg Girard’s photographs – melancholy, colour-drenched images of Shanghai – are very large, which has the effect of enticing the viewer into a direct relationship with the city’s grand architecture and intimate interiors. The images in the […]

Jeanne Dunning, VOX, image contemporaine – Patrice Duhamel

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Authors: Patrice Duhamel | Artists: Jeanne Dunning

[Fall 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. VOX, image contemporaine, Montréal 3 novembre – 15 décembre 2007

Outlooks, Accumulated Outlook and Outlook Express(ed) – Jessica Wyman

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Authors: Jessica Wyman | Artists: Gellman & Leslie Peters, Susan Collins

[Fall 2008] Oakville Galleries, Oakville June 29 – August 26, 2007 In a world in which “Outlook” is perhaps recognized more immediately as the name of a software program than as a word meaning “approach to life”, it seems fitting that this pair of exhibitions takes as its starting point the premise of using technology […]

Naoya Hatakeyama, Échelles – Manon Gosselin

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Authors: Manon Gosselin | Artists: Naoya Hatakeyama

[Fall 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre canadien d’architecture, Montréal 27 septembre 2007 – 3 février 2008

Roy Arden, Vancouver Art Gallery – John K. Grande

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Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Roy Arden

[Spring 2008] Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver October 20, 2007 – January 20, 2008 A landmark showing of the work of Vancouver School photographer Roy Arden should not go unnoticed! In his long career investigating the interrupted zones of society, Arden has chronicled not only a landscape in transition but a social and visual field. Against […]

Bamako 2007, 7es Rencontres Africaines de la photographie – Erika Nimis

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Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Emmanuel Bakari Daou, Fouad Maazouz, Nabil Boutros, Serge Emmanuel Jongué

[Spring 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Bamako 2007 7es Rencontres Africaines de la photographie, Bamako 22 novembre – 10 décembre 2007

Harun Farocki, One Image Doesn’t Take the Place of the Previous One – Cheryl Simon

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Authors: Cheryl Simon | Artists: Harun Farocki

[Spring 2008] Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal October 19 – December 1, 2007 Harun Farocki: One Image Doesn’t Take the Place of the Previous One, at Concordia University’s Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery last fall, brought the German artist to Montreal for the first time. Although he has made over ninety film […]

Le Mois de la photo à Montréal – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau

[Spring 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Explorations narratives, Montréal 6 septembre – 21 octobre 2007

Documenta 12 – Petra Halkes

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Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Allan Sekula, CK Rajan, George Osodi, Luis Jacob, Zoe Leonard, Zofia Kulik

[Fall 2007] Kassel, Germany, June 16 – September 23, 2007 “The big exhibition has no form.” This statement, the first sentence of a preface to the catalogue by curators Roger M. Buergel and Ruth Noack, set the tone for this year’s Documenta. This exhibition was indeed formless, sprawling from the heights of the Cascades at […]

Ève K. Tremblay, Postures scientifiques – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Eve K. Tremblay

[Fall 2007] Galerie Donald Browne, Montreal, April 7 – May 12, 2007 The photographic speculative fictions that Eve K. Tremblay exhibited at Galerie Donald Browne bore the same enigmatic hallmark as has all her earlier work. Set in some day-after-tomorrow but finally in an indeterminate tense, these works challenge the viewer, who must interpret what […]

Yan Giguère, Choisir – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Yan Giguère

[Fall 2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Occurrence, espace d’art et d’essai contemporains, du 17 mars au 21 avril 2007

Dubious Views, Subversive Souvenirs – David Garneau

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Authors: David Garneau | Artists: Jin-Me Yoon, Mitch Robertson, Roger Minick

[Fall 2007] online exhibition by Gallery TPW, Toronto, ongoing The emerging phenomenon of the virtual exhibition is creating both tremendous possibilities and challenges, particularly for photographers. Virtual venues offer new ways to disseminate and consider pictures, but current formats tend to privilege the curatorial imaginary. Dubious Views houses two online exhibitions produced by Gallery TPW. […]

The Contact Photography Festival, The Constructed Image – Gary Michael Dault

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Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Gyorgy Kepes, Roger Ballen, Stan Denniston

[Fall 2007] Toronto, May 1 – 31, 2007 Every May, Toronto is almost entirely given over to photography, in the guise of the CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival. This past May was the festival’s eleventh annual incarnation. The theme this year was “The Constructed Image” – which, in my estimation, is more or less code for […]

Guy Ben-Ner, Treehouse Kit – Patrice Duhamel

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Authors: Patrice Duhamel | Artists: Guy Ben-Ner

[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, 10 février – 22 avril 2007

David Goldblatt, Particulars – Cyril Thomas

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Authors: Cyril Thomas | Artists: David Goldblatt

[Fall 2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, 4 mai – 16 juin 2007

Jeff Wall – Stephanie Gibson

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Authors: Stephanie Gibson | Artists: Jeff Wall

[Summer 2007] Museum of Modern Art, New York February 25 – May 14, 2007 It is fitting that the Jeff Wall retrospective should be displayed on the sixth and top floor of the MoMA. For decades, photography collections had been relegated to the basement of museums. Photography, it was supposed, did not fit within the seamless narrative […]

Michel Lamothe – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Michel Lamothe

[Summer 2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Occurrence, Montréal du 20 janvier au 3 mars 2007

Lynne Cohen and Denis Farley, Access Points – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Denis Farley, Lynne Cohen

[Summer 2007] Parisian Laundry, Montréal January 12 – February 24, 2007 This welcome, timely, and provocative exhibition of photographic works by Lynne Cohen and Denis Farley shed considerable light on their respective oeuvres in a truly dialogical fashion. Lynne Cohen’s photographs have never looked more seductive and unsettling than they do in the present exhibition. […]

Alain Paiement, Expansible – Mosaïques fluides – Yam Lau

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Authors: Yam Lau | Artists: Alain Paiement

[Fall 2007] Biological Sciences Building, UQÀM, Montréal, inaugurated on December 6, 2006. A new public work by Alain Paiement was recently installed at the Université du Québec à Montréal. I met Paiement a few years ago. Since then, I have came to appreciate his photographic practice as being somewhat apart from the norm, from that […]

Fischli & Weiss, Flowers and Questions. A Retrospective – John K. Grande

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Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Fischli & Weiss

[Fall 2007] Tate Modern, London October 11, 2006 – January 14, 2007 Replicating the real, the Swiss duo of Fischli and Weiss play around with it all like so much spice cake. Since the 1970s, they have collaborated on numerous projects, and they have received their due recognition with this retrospective. Most often they fabricate meanings, or […]

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 […]