Publications

By Marie J. Jean — In the course of its brief history, Chambres avec vues has had two distinct presentation modes: first, a site-specific installation by Pierre Dorion in a vacant unit of the Les Dauphins sur le Parc apartment building in 1991, and second, its reconstitution in 2012...

By Marie J. Jean — Upon entering the gallery space and seeing Exhibit Model, the visitor is immediately assailed by a powerful experience: immersion in an unrecognizable environment, strikingly different from what they are used to seeing. All of the walls have been covered in monumental images presenting various views of exhibitions...

By Marie J. Jean — Serge Tousignant envisions exhibitions. That is to say, his works emerge at the close of a process in which, early on, they are planned to end up in an exhibition. From the moment he conceives of a series of works, he has a scenography in mind for them. The exhibition is thus open to him as an imaginary stage...

By Vít Havránek — As its international reception progressed, Mančuškaʼs work came to be characterized by two clearly differentiated but constantly interconnecting thrusts. On the one hand, he developed the post-conceptual tradition of actively questioning language signification in the process of the construction of narrative (the languages of literature, video, performance, and film)...

By Sabeth Buchmann, Ilse Lafer and Constanze Ruhm — While the subject of “rehearsal” is popular in film and theatre, as well as in the fine arts, it has been scarcely considered in historical and contemporary art discourses...

By Vanessa Joan Müller — By conflating several genres within a single image, or through a series on a single motif, she addresses a variety of artistic, historical and cross-cultural references...

By Marie J. Jean — The exhibition as an art practice is hardly a novel phenomenon when one considers that, beginning in the 19th century and throughout the 20th, artists developed experimental apparatuses that contributed to radicalizing its forms and conventions...

By Helena Holmberg — The films of Selander build on layers of images and meaning, layers that link history and pre-history to contemporary society, and in which nature as a prerequisite for life is one of the focal points...

By Claudine Roger — By limiting the visual clues in these early pieces and in his later monochromal painted-aluminum surfaces, Jean-Marie Delavalle has consistently forced spectators to invoke their imaginations: the better to grasp, for a moment, the “surrounding reality.”

By Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn — Between 1967 and 1980 the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) created an unparalleled effort between government bureaucrats, documentary filmmakers, community activists and “common” citizens under the banner Challenge for Change / Société Nouvelle.

By John Murchie — Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens collaborative practice has been grounded in an ambition to materialize—to demythologize—abstractions and abstract thought, especially in regard to “economics.”

By Michael Taussig — Modest Livelihood bears ironic and not so ironic reference to the 1999 Supreme Court of Canada decision reasserting age-old Native hunting and fishing rights...

By Sergio Mah — Why does the photographic, with its limitations and possibilities, have the ability to reconfigure the appearance of territory and, as a result, to trigger a perceptibility that goes beyond an experience of the visible?

Zachary Formwalt by Jonhan Hartle — Zachary Formwalt’s reflections on the history of photography are dealing with various forms of capital imagery as well.

Cathleen Chaffee — Spectres is Sven Augustijnen’s most recent in a series of projects to picture the reverberations of colonialism in present-day Europe.

Irene F. Whittome. Room 901 par Marie J. Jean — This vast undertaking led Irene F. Whittome to work in her studio for two consecutive years, creating a work and systematically documenting its production...

Babette Mangolte by Barbara Clausen — This exhibition presents a series of works by the French-American artist and filmmaker that span her early pioneering documentary interest in dance, performance art and theatre in New York City during the 1970s...

Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn. Space Fiction & the Archives by Liz Park — La présente expositioThis exhibition by Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn is a time portal that transports us to St. Paul in 1967 via two main elements : a “space fiction” in the form of a video entitled 1967: A People Kind of Place, and an archive...

Trevor Gould. Philosophy’s Self Image by Dominique Fontaine — Beyond the way we think of our relationships to animals and the particular way we enter their world, Gould invites us to think and to feel from another point of view, and thus to question and reflect aesthetic as well as artistic questions in political dimensions.