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

Ciel variable 75 - MUTATIONS | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 75 - MUTATIONS | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 75 - MUTATIONS | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 75 - MUTATIONS | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 75 - MUTATIONS | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 75 - MUTATIONS | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 75 - MUTATIONS | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 75 - MUTATIONS | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 74 - LOGOS | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 74 - LOGOS | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 73 - THEATRE OF MELANCHOLIA | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
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

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Sunil Gupta

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

Guy Blackburn, Touche – Christine Gauthier

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christine Gauthier | Artists: Guy Blackburn

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

Jennifer Long, Doubt – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Jennifer Long

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

Sylvie Readman – Suzanne Paquet

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Sylvie Readman

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

Shirin Neshat, Zarin – Maria Zimmermann Brendel

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Maria Zimmermann Brendel | Artists: Shirin Neshat

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

Doyon-Rivest – Kevin Temple

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Kevin Temple | Artists: Mathieu Doyon, Simon Rivest

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

Jeff Wall – Cyril Thomas

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Authors: Cyril Thomas | Artists: Jeff Wall

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

Diana Thorneycroft – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Diana Thorneycroft

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

Territoires urbains – Serge Bérard

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

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

Nobuyoshi Araki – Cyril Thomas

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Authors: Cyril Thomas | Artists: Araki Nobuyoshi

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

Iain Baxter& – Serge Bérard

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Authors: Serge Bérard | Artists: Iain Baxter&, N.E. Thing Co.

[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. VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine Montréal 10 septembre au 22 octobre 2005

Dieter Appelt Forth Bridge — Cinema. Metric Space – Ann Thomas

Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Ann Thomas | Artists: Dieter Appelt

[Winter 2005-2006] Canadian Centre for Architecture March 9–May 22, 2005 Ever since Dieter Appelt dedicated his career to making photographs in the early 1970s, he has addressed ontological issues relating to the nature of life, death, and the transmission of experience and memory. He has done this not only by developing complex sequencing structures for […]

Le mois de la photo à Montréal: Image and Imagination – Anna Carlevaris

Ciel variable 70 - MATERIA ET LUMEN | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Anna Carlevaris | Artists: Adad Hannah, Diane Borsato, Michael Snow, Mike Yuhasz, Polixeni Papapetrou, Rafael Goldchain

[Winter 2005-2006] Le mois de la photo à Montréal September 8–October 10, 2005 Montreal’s biennial of photography marks its ninth edition this year under the artistic stewardship of Martha Langford, founding director and former chief curator of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (1983–94). It takes someone with Langford’s expertise to curate what has become […]

The Venice Biennale : 51st International Art Exhibition – Jean-François Bélisle

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Authors: Jean-François Bélisle | Artists: Caio Reisewitz, George Hadjimichalis, Natalija Vujosevic, Oscar Muñoz, Rebecca Belmore

[Fall 2005] Venice, Italy June 12 – November 6, 2005 The cutting edge of today’s art ought to be the stuff of tomorrow, or so the contemporary belief goes. A visit to the fifty-first edition of the Venice Biennale highlights the importance and complexity of the relationship between the two elements of this belief: time […]

Damage Done. Materializing the Photographic Image – Kim Simon

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Authors: Kim Simon | Artists: Jennifer Givogue

[Fall 2005] Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto May 5–June 11, 2005 Photographer and curator Vid Ingelevics is becoming known for his smart and poetic exhibitions. His installations often form wonderful intertexts, implicitly exploring the complex relationship between photography, its institutions of collection and dissemination, and the production and retention of knowledge. On its surface, […]

Donigan Cumming, Moving Pictures – David Balzer

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Authors: Donigan Cumming | Artists: David Balzer

[Fall 2005] April 9–May 22, 2005 Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art The word “harrowing” readily pops to mind when viewing Donigan Cumming’s work. This word has broad, stock associations with both individual and empathic suffering: a lengthy battle with an illness, one’s experience nursing a friend through an illness, and, perhaps most oddly, an affecting, […]

Instandstillnessence – Vincent Bonin

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Vincent Bonin | Artists: John Oswald

[Fall 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal du 7 avril au 14 août 2005

Karen Henderson – Natalie Olanick

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Natalie Olanick | Artists: Karen Henderson

[Summer 2005] Optica Centre for Contemporary Arts, Montréal March 5 to April 9, 2005 There has always been a quiet elegance to Karen Henderson’s works. The artist, generally working with photo-based installations, is interested in the creation of carefully executed, labour-intensive works, in which consideration of the materials used moves beyond the object itself and […]

Michel de Broin et Ève K. Tremblay – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Eve K. Tremblay, Michel de Broin

[Summer 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Honeymoons Pierre-François Ouellette Art contemporain, Du 6 novembre au 18 décembre 2004

Thomas Demand – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Thomas Demand

[Summer 2005] The Museum of Modern Art, New York 4 March – 30 May, 2005 Looking at one of Thomas Demand’s photographs of a carefully replicated environment provokes a strange sensation of simultaneous recognition and disavowal. The composition contains familiar objects, and it seems familiar because it stems from seeing a similar image in another […]

Claude-Philippe Benoit – Suzanne Paquet

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Claude-Philippe Benoît

[Summer 2005] 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 Du 19 mars au 23 avril 2005

Rodney Graham : A Little Thought – Tetsuomi Anzai

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Tetsuomi Anzai | Artists: Rodney Graham

[Spring 2005] March 30–June 27, 2004 Art Gallery of Ontario Earlier this year, the Art Gallery of Ontario played host to a major retrospective of Rodney Graham’s work, featuring over twenty-five works from an artistic practice dating back to the 1970s. While much of the focus was on his recent film and video installations, also […]

Manon Labrecque: Raid – Jean-Pierre Vidal

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jean-Pierre Vidal | Artists: Manon Labrecque

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Séquence, Chicoutimi, du 9 septembre au 10 octobre 2004.

Roberto Pellegrinuzzi: Foliacées – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Roberto Pellegrinuzzi

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Thérèse Dion Art contemporain, Montréal du 3 septembre au 2 octobre 2004

Inconvenient Evidence: Iraqi Prison Photographs from Abu Ghraib – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala

[Spring 2005] International Center for Photography, New York 17 September – 28 November 2004 From its earliest days, photography has been used to bear witness to acts of violence and inhumanity. Its strength lies in the power to capture events as they transpire, to cast these events in a mantle of truth, and to circulate […]

Raymonde April: Bifurcations – Serge Bérard

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Serge Bérard | Artists: Raymonde April

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre culturel Yvonne L. Bombardier, Valcourt (Québec), du 19 octobre 2004 au 20 février 2005

David Rokeby – Jessica Fung

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jessica Fung | Artists: David Rokeby

[Spring 2005] Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario 25 June to 17 October 2004 David Rokeby is perhaps one of Canada’s most important figures in the art world – certainly in the electronic art world. He has received the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, presented at the Venice Biennale, and the Governor General’s Award in Visual and […]

Bettina Hoffmann, Spoilsport / Trouble-fête – Marie Fraser

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Marie Fraser | Artists: Bettina Hoffmann

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Spoilsport / Trouble-fête Galerie Liane et Danny Taran, Montréal du 15 juillet au 26 septembre 2004

Thomas Kneubühler – SB Edwards

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: SB Edwards | Artists: Thomas Kneubühler

[Spring 2005] Office 2000 Skol, Montréal du 3 septembre au 2 octobre 2004 The vivid night shots feature generic office-tower exteriors, often providing direct views into the cubicles within. The similarity between the buildings is eased by the variation in range from the subjects. The more distant vantages confront us with the sheer might and […]

Peter Greenaway – Colin Burnett

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Colin Burnett | Artists: Peter Greenaway

[Spring 2005] Tulse Luper Suitcases (Parts I–III, 2003–04) The Montreal Festival of Nouveau Cinema October 14-24, 2004 Even under “normal” circumstances, Peter Greenaway is a “difficult” director. With Tulse Luper Suitcases, the filmmaker makes the viewer leap out of trenches to confront three films totalling seven hours in length – and not just any three, […]

Éveil / Fabulation – Michel Hellman

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Michel Hellman | Artists: Mark Lewis, Mary Kunuk

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. commissaire : Marie Fraser Vox, Montréal 28 avril au 16 octobre et 8 mai au 10 juillet 2004

Alexandre Castonguay, Digitale – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alexandre Castonguay

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Pierre-François Ouellette Art contemporain, Montréal du 17 juin au 11 septembre 2004

The Atlas Group and Walid Raad – Chen Tamir

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Chen Tamir, Vid Ingelevics | Artists: Atlas group, Walid Raad

[Spring 2005] I Was Overcome by a Momentary Panic at the Thought that They Were Right: Documents from the Nassar Files in the Atlas Group Archive Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, 15 September–14 November, 2004 Mortar shells were almost a daily occurrence the year I was posted in Lebanon as part of my service […]

The Atlas Group and Walid Raad – Vid Ingelevics

Ciel variable 66 - ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Vid Ingelevics | Artists: Alexandre Castonguay

[Spring 2005] The Truth Will Be Known when the Last Witness Is Dead: Documents from the Fakhouri File at the Atlas Group Archive AGYU at Prefix ICA, Toronto, September 16–November 27, 2004 At the heart of history is a critical discourse that is antithetical to spontaneous memory. History is perpetually suspicious of memory, and its […]

Sadko Hadzihasanovic: El Comandante – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Sadko Hadzihasanovic

[Fall 2004] 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 2 avril au 2 mai 2004

Photographic Memory: The Experience of Performance Performance and Photography: POINT & SHOOT – Dayna McLeod

Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Dayna McLeod | Artists: Adad Hannah, Carl Bouchard, Martin Dufrasne, Vito Acconci

[Fall 2004] March 4–May 22, 2004 Dazibao, Montréal Performance and Photography: POINT & SHOOT is a three-part exhibition project curated by Michèle Thériault and France Choinière that examines the photograph as performance prop, subject, and object, and the photographic process as performative act, witness, and documentarian. Shown at Dazibao in March, April, and May 2004, […]

La disparition – Suzanne Paquet

Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Wojciech Prazmowski

[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Photographies de la Communauté française de Belgique, de Pologne, du Québec Organisé par le centre VU, Québec 16 janvier au 15 février 2004

The Big Picture: Recent Acquisition from the Collection of Alison & Alan Schwartz – Christopher Brayshaw

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Authors: Christopher Brayshaw | Artists: Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler, Thomas Struth

[Winter 2003] Vancouver Art Gallery 15 March–1 September 2003 Curated by Bruce Grenville and Melanie O’Brian “With the recent acquisition of more than sixty works by sixteen internationally acclaimed artists, the Vancouver Art Gallery now holds one of the most comprehensive contemporary photo-based art collections in North America.” So begins the curatorial apologia for the […]

Nan Goldin – Colette Tougas

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Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Nan Goldin

[Winter 2003] 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 22 mai au 7 septembre 2003

Patrick Altman and Vid Ingelevics, Codicologie(s) – Jacques Doyon

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Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Patrick Altman, Vid Ingelevics

[Summer 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Gallery 44, Toronto du 6 février au 8 mars 2003

Doyon-Rivest, Vos experts en gestion des utopies 2 – Viviane Paradis

Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Viviane Paradis | Artists: Doyon-Rivest

[Summer 2003] 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 2 mai au 1er juin 2003

Geneviève Cadieux, Barcelone – Colette Tougas

Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Geneviève Cadieux

[Summer 2003] 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 26 mars au 3 mai 2003

Edward Burtynsky, Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Edward Burtynsky

[Summer 2003] National Gallery of Canada 31 January–4 May 2003 The photograph – the colour photograph in particular – seems to have taken on gigantic proportions. Monumental images are a consequence of technological advances, but, more importantly, the shifting proportions are born from the work’s relationship to its place of reception: the gallery. Scale provokes […]

Foto Biënnale Rotterdam, Experience – Petra Halkes

Ciel variable 61 - MODERNE | VERNACULAIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Bruce Mau Design, Francis Summers

[Summer 2003] March 13–April 21, 2003 Anyone looking for photographs at the fifth international Foto Biënnale Rotterdam (FBR), titled Experience, would have left the two main exhibition sites in a hurry. Photo aficionados would have had better luck at the many participating galleries and museums throughout the city that opted for more traditional exhibitions. Few […]

Regarding Landscape/Au regard du paysage (I et II) – Suzanne Paquet

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Authors: Suzanne Paquet

[Spring 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Art Gallery of York University, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art et The Koffler Gallery, Toronto 12 mai au 30 juin 2002 Galerie Liane et Danny Taran, Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montréal 12 septembre au […]

Bertrand Carrière, Signes de jour – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

[Spring 2003] 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 du 4 septembre au 5 octobre 2002

Ken Lum Works With Photography – Petra Halkes

Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: Ken Lum

[Spring 2003] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography 21 September 2002 – 12 January 2003 Ken Lum Works With Photography. The title of a retrospective exhibition of Lum’s photographic works at the CMCP in Ottawa this fall mimics the way Lum uses text and aptly describes his practice. Lum works with photography. Rather than exploring the […]

Melvin Charney – Danielle Schwartz

Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Danielle Schwartz | Artists: Melvin Charney

[Spring 2003] Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal February 22 to April 28, 2002 Even in his earliest photographs, which he shot as a teen – portraits of alleyways, façades, and streets – Melvin Charney, the Montreal-based architect-painter-photographer-intellectual, was examining the relationship between local and international vernacular architecture and daily life. As this show reveals, the […]

Patrick Coutu, Œuvres spatiales – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Patrick Coutu

[Fall 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée du Québec du 6 juin au 13 octobre 2002

Documenta 11 – Petra Halkes

Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: David Goldblatt

[Fall 2002] Kassel June 8 to September 15, 2002 A colour photo by South African photographer David Goldblatt, from a series titled Jo’Burg Intersections (1999–2002), shows high-rises of Johannesburg towering over an enormous garbage dump. Almost imperceptibly, two human shelters merge with the trash. Light fixtures and billboards in the middle ground indicate a sunken […]

Robert Frank, HOLD STILL – keep going. Film/photoworks – Judith Parker

Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Judith Parker | Artists: Robert Frank

[Fall 2002] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography June 22–September 12, 2002 Organized by the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, in cooperation with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. One of the greatest pleasures of this exhibition was to see Robert Frank’s photoworks in the context of his moving images and to experience […]

Emmanuelle Léonard, Les travailleurs – Anite de Carvalho

Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Anite de Carvalho | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard

[Summer 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Dans le cadre de l’exposition La vie en temps réel. Mode ralenti. Espace Vox, du 22 mars au 26 mai 2002.

Lynne Cohen, No Man’s Land: The Photographs of Lynne Cohen – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Lynne Cohen

[Summer 2002] National Gallery of Canada February 1 to May 12, 2002 No Man’s Land: The Photographs of Lynne Cohen, was organized by the National Gallery of Canada, in collaboration with the Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne. It was shown at the National Gallery of Canada, from February 1 to May 12, 2002, and is now […]

Marc Audette, Écran – Maria Zimmermann Brendel

Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Maria Zimmermann Brendel | Artists: Marc Audette

[Spring 2002] Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal 12 Jan.–16 Feb. 2002 Marc Audette’s video and photography installation Écran is a unique juncture of various incompossibilities: the electronic media sphere of the video, digitally generated compositions, mechanically produced photographs, and the artist’s hands that were involved in the print development process. All vie for the viewer’s […]

Herbert List ou « la mise en présence de l’absence » – Adriana Kolar

Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Adriana Kolar | Artists: Herbert List

[Spring 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal 23 janvier au 28 avril 2002 Abstract The retrospective exhibition Herbert List – Flâneur romantique raises questions that come less from the photographs than from the […]

Bill Vazan, Ombres cosmologiques – Suzanne Paquet

Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Bill Vazan

[Winter 2001-2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée du Québec Du 2 septembre 2001 au 6 janvier 2002

Le pouvoir de l’image, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, 2001 – Guy Bellavance

Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Guy Bellavance | Artists: Alain Declercq, Alfredo Jaar, Annika Larsson, Jane Wilson, Ken Lum, Louise Wilson, Natacha Lesueur

[Winter 2001-2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Vid Ingelevics, Project Photographs 1992-2001 – Gary Michael Dault

Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Vid Ingelevics

[Fall 2001] The Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto June 14–July 28, 2001 This small but deftly selected sampling of Vid Ingelevics’s work of the past decade left the viewer feeling that the veteran Toronto-based photographer and curator could now be well served by a full-scale retrospective exhibition. Yet, given the way the photographs shown here seemed […]

Alain Paiement, Refaire surface – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Paiement

[Fall 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Clark Du 10 mai au 17 juin 2001

Vera Greenwood, L’Hôtel Soficalle – Anne Bénichou

Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Anne Bénichou | Artists: Vera Greenwood

[Spring 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa 5 février – 15 avril 2001

Isabelle Hayeur, Les Paysages incertains – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur

[Spring 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Verticale Du 18 avril au 27 mai 2001

William Eakin, Open Studio: William Eakin – Susan Close

Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES | Exhibition reviews

[Winter 2000-2001] par Susan Close Open Studio: William Eakin St. Norbert Arts Centre, Winnipeg, June 4 – September 24, 2000 William Eakin Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg September 28, 2000 – January 7, 2001 Winnipeg artist William Eakin works on a vast scale, as both a collector of objects and a maker of photo­graphs. It comes as […]

Alexa Wright, I – Dayna McLeod

Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Dayna McLeod | Artists: Alexa Wright

[Winter 2000-2001] par Dayna McLeod Articule, Montreal September 9 – October 8, 2000 Projecting the agency of the ego and the power of the image in an age obsessed with identity politics, performative fiction, and digital truth, Alexa Wright reveals disabled versions of herself in her solo exhibition at Articule, I. This series of eight […]

Marian Penner Bancroft, By Land and Sea (Prospect and Refuge) – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Marian Penner Bancroft

[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. By Land and Sea (Prospect and Refuge) Galerie de l’UQAM du 8 septembre au 7 octobre 2000

Mouvance et mutation – François Dion

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: François Dion | Artists: Greg Staats, Ramona Ramlochand

[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine, Ottawa du 19 mai au 17 septembre 2000

André Martin, Mes modèles. Autoportraits – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: André Martin

[Summer 2000] 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 11 mai au 13 août 2000

Serge Clément, Persona – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Serge Clément

[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Occurrence du 16 mai au 18 juin 2000

Sylvie Readman, Convergences élémentaires – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Sylvie Readman

[Spring 2000] 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 29 octobre au 4 décembre 1999

Angela Grauerholz, Sententia I-LXII and Schriftbilder – Gary Michael Dault

Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Spring 2000] by Gary Michael Dault Power Plant, Toronto from December 11, 1999, to February 20, 2000. Given the scope and ambition of the two photo-works that Angela Grauerholz presented recently at Toronto’s Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (which extend the inventiveness of her photo-installations for Documenta IX and the 1995 Carnegie International), it is […]

Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bertien Van Manen, Pelle Kronestedt

[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Ghenadi Gatev, Orgies et cannibalisme – Christine Desrochers

Ciel variable 47 - AFFECTION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers | Artists: Ghenadi Gatev

[Summer 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Observatoire 4 10 avril au 8 mai 1999

Clara Gutsche, La série des couvents – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Clara Gutsche

[Printemps 1999] 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 de Joliette Du 18 octobre 1998 au 10 janvier 1999

Andrea Szilasi – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Andrea Szilasi

[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Circa Du 9 janvier au 13 février 1999

Sandra Haar, Lynne Marsh, Sexe-limite – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel variable 45 - (OFF CAMERA) | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Lynne Marsh, Sandra Haar

[Winter 1998-1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. La Centrale, Montréal Du 3 octobre au 8 novembre 1998

C’est la vie – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 45 - (OFF CAMERA) | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Joachim Mogarra, Lucy Gunning, Sally Mann

[Winter 1998-1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Dans le cadre de la 1ère Biennale de Montréal Du 27 août au 18 octobre 1998

Charles Gagnon, Observations – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Charles Gagnon

[Fall 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée du Québec Du 6 mai au 27 septembre 1998

La Primavera fotogràfica 1998, 9e édition – Franck Michel

Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Exhibition reviews

[Fall 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Barcelone, Espagne

Andy Goldsworthy, Arche – Anne-Marie Garceau

Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Anne-Marie Garceau | Artists: Andy Goldsworthy

[Summer 1998] 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 8 avril au 7 juin 1998

David Rasmus, Offrande – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: David Rasmus

[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Vox, Montréal Du 19 mars au 19 avril 1998

Raymonde April, Les Fleuves tranquilles – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 42 - AUTHENTICITY 3 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Raymonde April

[Spring 1998] 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 de Joliette 21 septembre 1997 – 4 janvier 1998

De fougue et de passion – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel variable 42 - AUTHENTICITY 3 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Emmanuel Galland

[Spring 1998] 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 17 octobre 1997 – 4 janvier 1998

Trois fois Trois Paysages : l’année photographique à Québec – Daniel Béland

Ciel variable 42 - AUTHENTICITY 3 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Daniel Béland

[Spring 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Du 3 octobre 1997 au 31 mai 1998 Événement organisé par le centre VU, Québec

The Dead – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel variable 41 - AUTHENTICITY 2 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle

[Winter 1997-1998] Centre des arts Saidye Bronfman, Montréal Du 11 septembre au 26 octobre 1997 Nobuyoshi Araki, Krass Clement, Donigan Cumming, Hans Danuser, Sue Fox, Leslie Hakim-Dowek, Louis Jammes, Maxime Jourdan, Rudolf Schäfer, Bastienne Schmidt, Andres Serrano, Clare Strand, Annet van der Voort, Nick Waplington, Belinda Whiting, Neil Winokur, Thomas Wrede, Franco Zecchin et Xavier […]

Immatérialités et documents, Le Mois de la photo à Montréal – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 41 - AUTHENTICITY 2 | Exhibition reviews

[Winter 1996-1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. septembre 1997

Jean-Luc Moulène – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Jean-Luc Moulène

[Fall 1997] Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris April 25–June 22, 1997 “The historian, like the camera, always lies.” In discussing history’s inevitable inaccuracies, historian Norman Davies recalls how the impossible task of the historian has been likened to that of the photographer. The former must collate as many sources as possible in […]

John Max – Serge Allaire

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Serge Allaire | Artists: John Max

[Fall 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Vox, du 20 mars au 20 avril 1997

Objectif corps – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Sally Mann

[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal Du 6 mars au 1er juin 1997

Benoît Aquin, Haïti chérie – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Benoit Aquin

[Summer 1997] 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 contemporains

Richard Baillargeon – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Richard Baillargeon

[Summer 1997] Dazibao, Montreal, January 16–February 23 Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, January 23–February 23 While images, whether photographic or other, necessarily give us something to look at, only some remind us that we are looking. And in the case of photography, with its inherent potential for the voyeuristic “gaze,” the sense of sight […]

Jeune photographie 1996, Fuite et repaire, second volet – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel variable 38 - DESIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle

[Spring 1997] Dazibao, Montreal November 14 – December 15, 1996 Photographic images have more to do with ideas and impressions than with their material contingencies. Truism? At this point in time, yes. Nonetheless, the notion of photography as thought, as opposed to document, was served up as one of the main discourses in the second […]

Pierre Guimond, Sept villes – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 38 - DESIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Pierre Guimond

[Spring 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal Du 24 octobre au 1er décembre 1996

Chuck Samuels – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Chuck Samuels

[Winter 1996-1997] Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal October 5–November 24, 1996 How about a crash course in the history of the female nude in photography? How about replacing the female models with Adam himself? That, in a nutshell, is what Montreal photographer Chuck Samuels’s Before the Camera is about. Presented as part of CIAC’s […]

Bertrand Carrière – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

[Winter 1996-1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke Du 1er juillet au 4 septembre 1996

Œuvres de guerre. Les femmes, la photographie et l’art de la guerre – Marie-Jeanne Musiol

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Marie-Jeanne Musiol

[Winter 1996-1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine Du 20 septembre au 15 décembre 1996

Frederic Law Olmsted en perspective. Photographies de Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander et Geoffrey James – Franck Michel

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Franck Michel

[Winter 1996-1997] Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Montréal Du 16 octobre 1996 au 2 février 1997

Travel Journals, Part I – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Geoffrey James

[Fall 1996] Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal May 2–July 28, 1996 From Homer’s Odyssey to Kerouac’s On the Road and beyond, travel has provided inspiration for countless tales. Part of the attraction lies in break­ing boundaries, in widening the realm of the imaginary. Then there is what Voltaire’s nomadic characters Candide and Cacambo recognized […]

Dieter Appelt : La catastrophe des choses – Suzie Larivée

Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: François Dion | Artists: Dieter Appelt

[Fall 1996] 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 Du 17 avril au 4 août 1996