Richard Mosse, The Enclave – Zoë Tousignant

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Authors: Zoë Tousignant | Artists: Richard Mosse

May 6, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — One would have to be a seasoned cynic to be indifferent to Richard Mosse’s film installation The Enclave (2012–13). Visually, it is an impressionistic, six-screened montage of beautifully lurid hues of hot pink; politically, it reveals a heretofore unseen side of the conflict that has ravaged the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998; and theoretically, it raises fundamental questions regarding the meaning and function of images of war…

Gwenaël Bélanger, Dépeindre – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Gwenaël Bélanger

February 4, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Harun Farocki, Serious Games: I–IV (2009–10) – Elisa Julia Gilmour

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Elisa Julia Gilmour | Artists: Harun Farocki

February 6, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — On September 17, 2014, the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC), an institution that collects, researches, and exhibits historical and contemporary lens-based imagery, opened three new exhibitions on war imagery: how it is produced, constructed, distributed, and received…

S’il y a lieu je pars avec vous – Ada Ackerman

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Authors: Ada Ackerman | Artists: Julien Magre

February 11, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

The Great War: The Persuasive Power of Photography – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala

February 13, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — The Great War: The Persuasive Power of Photography contains over four hundred images, ranging from private portraits to almost-life-size enlargements of battlefields and scenes from the front. The exhibition addresses the multiple means by which photographs circulated during the war years, while at the same time underscoring the profound sense of loss and devastation…

Félix Dufour-Laperrière, Transatlantique – Charles Guilbert

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Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Félix Dufour-Laperrière

February 18, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

David Goldblatt, Structures of Dominion and Democracy – Stephen Horne

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: David Goldblatt

February 20, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — David Goldblatt has been photographing in South Africa for many decades. The acuity with which he has recorded the depths of violence and its specific character both during and after the era of apartheid rests on his observation of violence naturalized…

Ryoji Ikeda, superposition – Louis Cummins

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Louis Cummins | Artists: Ryoji Ikeda

February 25, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Kelly Lycan, Underglow – Karen Henry

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Karen Henry | Artists: Kelly Lycan

February 27, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — The title of Kelly Lycan’s show, Underglow, incorporates her interest in consumer culture, photography, high art, and cultures of display. Lycan uses the connotations of luminous detailing in car culture, cosmetic techniques that add shimmering radiance, and, in general, the use of light to emphasize form to animate the role of light in photography…

Caroline Hayeur, Adoland – Nicolas Mavrikakis

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Authors: Nicolas Mavrikakis | Artists: Caroline Hayeur

Novembre 26, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Bettina Hoffmann, Drain – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bettina Hoffmann

Novembre 28, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Louis Couturier et Jacky Georges Lafargue, Asbestos Storm – Line Dezainde

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Line Dezainde | Artists: Jacky Georges Lafargue, Louis Couturier

December 3, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

La photographie de la ville arabe au XIXe siècle – Mirna Boyadjian

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Authors: Mirna Boyadjian | Artists: Émile Béchard

December 5, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Home Sweet Home – Sonia Pelletier

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Authors: Sonia Pelletier | Artists: Juan Betancurth, Nancy Davenport, Søren Lose

December 10, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Manif d’art 7 – Véronique Leblanc

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Authors: Véronique Leblanc | Artists: Darlene Laponse, Jean-Maxime Dufresne, Mark Boulos, Virginie Laganière

December 12, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

CounterIntelligence – Jill Glessing

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Authors: Jill Glessing

December 17, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — The rich-text title CounterIntelligence that introduces an exhibition, writings, workshop, and film screenings considers two cultural nodes and production modes – art and military activity. The project’s formal and thematic eclecticism befits the Berlin-based Canadian curator, Charles Stankievech, whose own work traverses the fields of sound and visual art, writing, and publishing…

Michael Flomen, NYX/1993*2013 – John K. Grande

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Michael Flomen

September 7, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — The origins of camera-less photography go back to the beginnings of photography, with William Henry Fox Talbot’s photogenic drawings, the process for which he described in 1839: “It is a little bit of magic realized: – of natural magic. You make the powers of nature work for you, and no wonder that your work is well and quickly done…”

Yan Giguère, Visites libres – Julie Gagné

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Julie Gagné | Artists: Yan Giguère

September 12, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Claire Beaugrand-Champagne. Émouvante vérité, Photographies de 1970 à 2013 – Pierre Dessureault

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Claire Beaugrand-Champagne

September 14, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art. – Ivan Tanzer

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Ivan Tanzer | Artists: Alan Michelson

September 17, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — Although he did not set out to organize a comprehensive history of activism in Aboriginal art, guest curator and National Visiting Trudeau Fellow Steve Loft has mounted a significant exhibition that strengthens the living discourse surrounding Aboriginal art production…

Jocelyne Alloucherie, Dédale / Yann Pocreau, Projections – Sonia Pelletier

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Authors: Sonia Pelletier | Artists: Jocelyne Alloucherie, Yann Pocreau

September 19, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Raymond Depardon, Un moment si doux – Franck Michel

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Raymond Depardon

September 24, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Laura Letinsky, Still Life Photographs 1997–2012 – Robert Evans

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Robert Evans | Artists: Laura Letinsky

September 26, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — For over a decade, Winnipeg-born photographer Laura Letinsky has pursued still-life photography as a means to explore social structures and the world around us. These works are drawn from five series and range from early compositions that owe obvious debts to the traditional still-life genre to more recent images that challenge the viewer’s understanding of picture space and the nature of photographic representation…

Lorraine Gilbert, Paysages canadiens 1988-2013 – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Lorraine Gilbert

October 1, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Michel Lamothe, Fréquenter le paysage – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Michel Lamothe

October 3, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Antoni Muntadas, Entre/Between – Karen Henry

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Karen Henry | Artists: Antoni Muntadas

October 10, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — Warning: Perception Requires Involvement, in bold white text on a red background, covers the wall of the Canada Line transit station in downtown Vancouver. It is both a statement about the commitment needed to understand something and a public warning about the tendency these days to limit the onslaught of information to what can be gleaned in a ten-second media clip or an advertising image…

Dominique Blain, Blancs de mémoire – Pierre Rannou

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Pierre Rannou | Artists: Dominique Blain

October 12, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Robert Burley, La disparition de l’obscurité / Michel Campeau, Icônes de l’obsolescence – Louis Cummins

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Louis Cummins | Artists: Michel Campeau, Robert Burley

October 15, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Thomas Demand, Animations – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 96 – PERFORMING FOR THE IMAGE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Thomas Demand

June 27, 2018 [originally published in CV96 in Winter 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Googleheim – Heather White

Ciel variable 96 – PERFORMING FOR THE IMAGE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Heather White | Artists: Alison Craighead, Jon Thomson, Marika Dermineur, Stéphane Degoutin

July 3, 2018 [originally published in CV96 in Winter 2014] — First in the sightline for those entering Googleheim, a group show curated by Horea Avram at Interaccess in Toronto: a wireless mouse on a plinth. It might have been a monument to audience engagement – a succinct overture to a show invested in dialogue between the museum’s interest in artefacts and the Internet’s provision of access. It wasn’t that, though; interaction was not particularly celebrated…