Review of Mélissa Longpré’s recent book published in the photo book column of the Webzine de Ciel variable. Mélissa Longpré’s third book, J’ai pensé à toi, is composed of photographs, drawings, and messages involving a collection of birds that she has assembled over the years. The book was created in conjunction with three exhibitions presented… Continue reading J’ai pensé à toi, une collection d’oiseaux
Category: Publications
Mirement /Towering
Review of the book Mirement/Towering, edited by Gentiane Bélanger, France Choinière and Marie-Hélène Leblanc, Montréal, Dazibao, Lennoxville, Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Gatineau, Galerie de l’UQO, 2023, 236 pages (bilingual) The book Mirement/Towering continues a reflection based on Geneviève Chevalier’s homonymous exhibition project, which was presented in three parts between 2021 and 2024 at… Continue reading Mirement /Towering
Fabiano Kueva, Alexander von Humboldt Archive Montreal
A review of the Oboro exhibition by Fabiano Kueva and curator Emmanuelle Choquette, the Montreal stage of the “Humboldt effect” that Kueva has been pursuing for over ten years. Since 2011, Ecuadorian artist, curator and director Fabiano Kueva has been working on a multidisciplinary project based on the voyages of Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé… Continue reading Fabiano Kueva, Alexander von Humboldt Archive Montreal
Blending into the landscape
Femme au front (Woman at the front). Véronique DoucetMusée d’art de Rouyn-NorandaFrom October 13, 2023 to January 14, 2024Curators: Jean-Jacques Lachapelle and Hélène Bacquet Bringing together in a single exhibition a selection of works representative of Véronique Doucet’s twenty-five years of practice is a challenge in itself. All the more so since her approach is… Continue reading Blending into the landscape
Léna Mill-Reuillard, Airer
Review of Léna Mill-Reuillard’s exhibition Airer, curated by Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau at DRAC Art actuel (Drummondville) in summer 2023.
Ælab devenir-hêtre. Community work
On the exhibition Devenir hêtre (Becoming-Beech), Ælab at the Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environnement, Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, May 11 to May 28, 2023
Eidolons, Lorraine Simms
Catherine Barnabé, Lorraine Simms and James Sutherland-Smith, Eidolons (Montréal : Lorraine Simms, 2022), 60 p., ill. (English and French)
Terrestrial Psyche. Mourning and Uprooting
Several of Andréanne Godin’s works underline the extent to which the territory is embedded in our memory, through memories of daily or seasonal activities that crystallize as sediment in our psyche(1). Her work also attests to the mourning and uprooting that affect the fullness of this intimate geology. Last text of a series in two… Continue reading Terrestrial Psyche. Mourning and Uprooting
Terrestrial Psyche. Territory and territorialities
What about the relationship between humans and territories, their mutual histories and the feeling of territoriality? Are they indicative of our complex, sometimes intimate, relationships to the places we live in, frequent or visit? First text of a two-part series.
Mat Chivers and Diane Borsato
Human Mineral
My father was a geologist and my childhood was steeped in the scientific vocabulary specific to his field. To me, words like igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock embody the hard kernel of my father, his fascination with apparently inert matter and his singular awareness of long duration.