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Nicole Bauberger
David Garneau, Dark Chapters
Julie Graff
Yann Pocreau, Inaltérable
Sherry Chunqing Liu
Reshaping Collections: Where History Meets Art
Tristan Sasseville-Langelier
Restituer l’archive de l’éphémère : la performance et ses traces mémorielles
Etienne Ardaens
David Altmejd. Agora
Gina CortopassiNo. 142 - Winter 2026
Prophecy: Thinking at the edge of reason
Didier Morelli
Small File Media Festival
Fannie Goettker
De l’espace intersidéral à l’espace public : retour sur From the Cosmos to the Commons  au Planétarium de Hambourg
Joséphine Rivard
Carolyne Scenna, SODIUM
Josianne Poirier
Lynn Kodeih, Even Light is a Few Minutes Late
Janice Wright Cheney
Sarah Maloney’s Pleasure Ground: A Feminist Take on the Natural World
Lynn Kodeih
Santiago Tamayo Soler, Building worlds in between
Léuli Eshrāghi
Bonavista Biennale : String Games
Gina CortopassiNo. 141 - Fall 2025
Art and Minerals: Towards a Decentring
Julia Caron Guillemette
De la minéralité pour révéler « le rien »
Annie France Noël
Tendresse!
Kenneth Hayes
Pamela Nelson, Smooshes, Slabs & Slumps
Nathalie Bachand
Re:generative
Burçak Yakıcı
Asunción Molinos Gordo, The Peasant, the Scholar and the Engineer
Gil McElroy
Laura Peturson and Andrew Ackerman, Keeping Time
Manon Blanchette
Maryse Goudreau, Dans l’œil du béluga
André-Louis Paré
Geneviève Matthieu, Danseprophétiqueàl’îlebizarre
Geneviève Thibault
Gabriel Mondor, Projet SAMOHT et Brûlures abstraites
Candice Dan
Une œuvre asphyxiante : A Tribute to Toronto
Alice Billoux
Affections diasporiques
André-Louis ParéNo. 140 - Spring-Summer 2025
Something in the Air
Eléonore Varone
Exposer pour manifester, Narrative Power Alliance : Exhibition
John Gayer
Tschabalala Self, Around the Way
Sandrine Gagnon
François Mathieu, Architectures éphémères – Les bancs
Pierre Arese
Anita Molinero, Plastic Butcher
Dorian Fraser
Educating Our Desires, equity-deserving action within artist-led spaces
Julie Graff
Récits de la création du monde : Exposition bilan de la Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone 2024
Nathalie Bachand
Art Must Be Artificial: Perspectives of AI in the Visual Arts
Gina CortopassiNo. 139 - Winter 2025
Art on the Web of Value
GA Wardle
Playing with Fire, The Cave Art of Nadine Faraj
Marie-Pier Bocquet
Zoom Art — Poussières d’étoiles
Christelle Proulx
Sous la surface : une étude solaristique
Ariel Rondeau
Charline Dally, this womb of things to be
Gil McElroy
Matrilineal Hauntings: Ceramics by Kathy Kranias
Jean-Michel Quirion
Entretenir le brasier, Biennale de sculpture de Saint-Jean-Port-Joli
Louis-Philippe Savard
and Counting de Wafaa Bilal : le corps-mémorial
André-Louis ParéNo. 138 - Fall 2024
The Process of Mourning, Between Forgetting and Remembering
Marie-Hélène Lemaire
NIGAMON/TUNAI : le chant de la forêt, des pierres et des oiseaux
Julie Richard
Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, 60e édition de la Biennale de Venise
Alain-Martin Richard
Paysage à bercer: une sculpture d’André Du Bois
Pía Baltazar
Navid Navab, in collaboration with Garnet Willis, Organism + Excitable Chaos
Karl-Gilbert Murray
Théo Bignon, Double entendre
Esther Bourdages
La musique qui nous entoure : le parcours sonore du Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville
Irem Karaaslan
Catalog of Ruins
André-Louis ParéNo. 137 - Spring/Summer 2024
The Birds That Remain
Marie-Pier Bocquet
Mélissa Longpré, J’ai pensé à toi
Marie-Josée Therrien
Tracing Labor Territories
Maxence Croteau
Étienne Tremblay-Tardif, Société-écran
Geneviève Goyer-Ouimette
Marie-Claude Gendron, Faire mon lit
Maude Johnson
Gabi Dao, Hold these questions close
Gabriel Gravel
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Jouez/Play
Mayookh Barua
The Architecture of Departure
André-Louis ParéNo. 136 - Winter 2024
Building: Finding an Urban Ethics
Audrey Limoges
Corps sensibles : cartographier l’intime
Jean-Michel Quirion
Symposium L’effet Humboldt V : alimenter le feu
Noémie Fortin
Horizons nouveaux
Marie-Josée Therrien
Sur l’américanité et autres expériences d’appartenance / On Americanity & Other Experiences of Belonging
Julien St-Georges Tremblay
Chaînes de montage d’œuvres : entretien avec Morgan Legaré
André-Louis ParéNo. 135- Fall 2023
The Futures of Smell
Janelle Pitre
Sexe + Désirs + Data
Maeve Hanna
Marcia Pitch, The Invisible Woman
André-Louis ParéNo. 134 - Spring - Summer 2023
Thinking About Pornography in a Different Way
Bernard Schütze
FIFA 2023: Afterimages and Reflections
Gil McElroy
Ice Follies
Vende Tela, Compra Terra. Exhibition view. Courtesy of SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art. Photo: Freddy Arciniegas - Arcpixel.
Julia Eilers Smith
MAHKU (Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin), Vende tela, compra terra
André-Louis ParéNo. 133 - Winter 2023
Neurodiversity: Recognizing difference
n° 132 - Autumn 2022
Enfleshing Flesh: An Interview with Mlondolozi (Mlondi) Zondi
Edwin Janzen
Justine Skahan, De l’intérieur vers l’extérieur
David Blatherwick
Mathieu Beauséjour, Demi-monde
Sam Weselowski
Stan Douglas: 2011 ≠ 1848
André-Louis ParéNo. 132 - Fall 2022
Aesthetics/Ethics of the Flesh
Julia Skelly
Solace and Wakeup Calls: the 59th Venice Biennale
André-Louis ParéNo. 131 - Spring - Summer 2023
Poetics of the voice
James Oscar
Miles Greenberg, Late October
André-Louis ParéNo. 130 - Winter 2022
Space in the feminine
Aude Sirey du Buc de Ferret
Constitutions
André-Louis ParéNo. 129 - Fall 2021
Redefining Museums
Aseman Sabetn° 128 Spring-Summer 2021
Parc Offsite: An Interview with Eli Kerr
André-Louis ParéNo. 128 - Spring - Summer 2021
It’s all happening so fast
André-Louis Paréno. 127 - winter 2021
Re-territorializing Public Space
No. 125 - spring-summer 2020
Interview with karen elaine spencer
No. 126 - fall 2020
Massimo Guerrera, Domus (Se rencontrer vraiment) (2017)
André-Louis ParéNo. 126 - fall 2020
Laboratory thinking
Cliff EylandNo. 116 - spring-summer 2017
Machine Edge: An interview with Erika Lincoln
André-Louis ParéNo. 125 - spring-summer 2020
Dictatorships in the neoliberal age
No. 125 - spring-summer 2020
karen elaine spencer, always the same, 2013
Bernard SchützeNo. 118 - winter 2018
Sculpture of Steel, City of Nerves. A review of Dendrites by Michel de Broin
André-Louis ParéNo. 122 - spring-summer 2019
De la destruction : un entretien avec Jean Pierre Raynaud
Bernard SchützeFIFAFIFA 2020
FIFA 2020 | Stéphane Ghez : Charlotte Perriand, pionnière de l’art de vivre
Bénédicte RamadeFIFAFIFA 2020
FIFA 2020 | Joris Gijsen : Wild Gene
André-Louis ParéNo. 124 - winter 2020
Creating in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Daphné BoxerNo. 124 - winter 2020
Landscape Past Future: An interview with Adam Basanta
No. 124 - winter 2020
Adam Basanta, Collaged 19th century photographic landscapes with trees, palms, and observers, 2019
Andreas BroechmanNo. 124 - winter 2020
Inordinate Images.
On the machine aesthetics of AI-based art
2020 Fundraising Campaign
Ariane Lemieux
Displacement, destruction, protection: views on endangered heritage (about a round table on Dominique Blain’s exhibition).
Michelle Drapeau
COZIC. Over to You. From 1967 to Now
Anna Brunette
Alexis Bellavance, Sarah Wendt + Pascal Dufaux at AXENÉO7
Laurent Vernet
Dialogues avec l’histoire
Taisuke EdamuraNo. 123 - fall 2019
Shadow of Clear Glass: Wyn Geleynse and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
André-Louis ParéNo. 123 - fall 2019
Transparency
Sophie Guignard
Rencontres photographiques en Gaspésie : une 10e édition éclectique et conviviale
Bernard SchützeFTA
FTA 2019 | Stefan Kaegi: Granma. Trombones from Havana
Karine P. BouchardFIMAV
FIMAV 2019 | L’art sonore au Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville
Mathieu TeasdaleFTA
FTA 2019 | Daria Deflorian + Antonio Tagliarini: Quasi niente
Mathieu TeasdaleFTA
FTA 2019 | Wajdi Mouawad: Tous des oiseaux
Bénédicte RamadeFTA
FTA 2019 | Serge Aimé Coulibaly: Kalakuta Republik
André-Louis ParéNo. 122 - spring-summer 2019
Destruction/Creation in the Age of Capitalism
Alex BurchmoreNo. 122 - spring-summer 2019
Smashing Vases: Ceramics and the Aesthetics of Destruction in Works
by Ai Weiwei and Liu Jianhua
Jean-Michel Quirion
Karen Kraven and Radek Brousil, Whrrr Whrrr.
Laura Cull Ó MaoilearcaNo. 121 - winter 2019
Fevered Sleep’s Sheep Pig Goat
André-Louis ParéNo. 121 - winter 2019
To create with animals or not
Mathieu TeasdaleNo. 120 - fall 2018
Pour une propédeutique des para-espaces dans l’œuvre de Jeremy Shaw
André-Louis ParéNo. 120 - fall 2018
Art and Psychoactives
FTA
FTA 2018 | Jean-François Nadeau + Stéfan Boucher, Nos ghettos
FTA
FTA 2018 | Sarah Vanhee: Oblivion
Bernard SchützeFTA
FTA 2018 | Whispers and Thunders in the Halls of Power
FTA
FTA 2018 | Union of The North : Matthew Barney, Valdimar Johannsson & Erna Omarsdottir
André-Louis ParéNo. 119 - spring-summer 2018
Space in question
Sydney HartNo. 118 - winter 2018
Crisis and Circulation: The Representation of Flows in Teresa Margolles’ Recent Work
Ray CroninNo. 118 - winter 2018
Empathetic Responses: Emily Falencki and Eric Fischl
André-Louis ParéNo. 118 - winter 2018
Redress?
André-Louis ParéNo. 117 – fall 2017
Emotions and Visual Arts
John K. Grande
Henrique Oliveira – Being & Form
André-Louis ParéNo. 116 - spring-summer 2017
Sculpture in the Digital Age
Andre-Louis ParéNo. 115 – winter 2017
Motionless Bodies in a World on the Go
André-Louis ParéNo. 114 – fall 2016
Face Politics
Louise BrunetNo. 114 – fall 2016
Édition/Forme/Expérimentation : Rethinking the book
Vincent MarquisNo. 114 – fall 2016
‘Making Faces Our Weapons’: Biometrics, Identity, and the Potential of the Visage
André-Louis ParéNo. 113 – spring-summer 2016
Fetishes: When the Object Becomes Thing
André-Louis ParéNo. 112 – winter 2016
Art, Memory and Truth
Michael BlumNo. 111 – fall 2015
Borders 101
André-Louis ParéNo. 111 – fall 2015
Migrations, Borders and… Creation
André-Louis ParéNo. 111 – fall 2015
Aram Han Sifuentes: The Politics of an Immigrant
André-Louis ParéNo. 110 – spring-summer 2015
Ecology: Between Ethics and Aesthetics
Bénédicte RamadeNo. 110 – spring-summer 2015
Ecological Art: Pushing the Limits of the Exhibition
Caitlin ChaissonNo. 110 – spring-summer 2015
Black Gold: The Esoteric and the Ecological
Caroline Loncol DaigneaultNo. 110 – spring-summer 2015
Nature in Brackets: The Position of an Art Centre
Pamela MackenzieNo. 110 – spring-summer 2015
Plastic Undone: Montalti’s Ephemeral Icons
Gentiane BélangerNo. 110 – spring-summer 2015
World of Matter, or Complex Thought about Terrains
Christine RossNo. 110 – spring-summer 2015
The Cloud in Video: Notes on Isabelle Hayeur’s Aftermaths
Isabelle HermannNo. 110 – spring-summer 2015
Nicolás Uriburu: Greenpeace to the Rescue!
Gil McElroyNo. 110 – spring-summer 2015
Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky: Veneers
Adam BarbuNo. 110 – spring-summer 2015
Nicolas Fleming: Something that accompanies one everyday and everywhere
Anaïs CastroNo. 110 – spring-summer 2015
Jon Rafman: A Profound Dissonance
André-Louis ParéNo. 110 – spring-summer 2015
Milutin Gubash, exhibition catalogue
André-Louis ParéNo. 109 – winter 2015
The Diorama: Fascinating, Provocative and Educational
Mélanie BoucherNo. 109 – winter 2015
Starving of Sudan by Xu Zhen: Epistemology and Pragmatics of the Diorama
Guillaume Le GallNo. 109 – winter 2015
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and the Persistence of the Diorama
Jean-Philippe UzelNo. 109 – winter 2015
Bête Noire by Kent Monkman. Revenge by Diorama
Marie-Ève MarchandNo. 109 – winter 2015
The Diorama as Artistic Process
Anne-Marie St-Jean AubreNo. 109 – winter 2015
Vicky Sabourin’s Stagings
Nathalie LafortuneNo. 109 – winter 2015
Bois d’Œuvre, Rendez-vous au Cœur de l’Ouvrage. The Saint-Jean-Port-Joli Biennale
Ariane BelisleNo. 109 – winter 2015
Rachel Kneebone: 399 Days
Anaïs CastroNo. 109 – winter 2015
Katie Paterson: Ideas That Are Out There
André-Louis ParéNo. 109 – winter 2015
Graeme Patterson. Secret Citadel
Peter DubéNo. 109 – winter 2015
The Human Factor. The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Ralph Rugoff (ed.)
Serge FisetteNo. 109 – winter 2015
Camp Fires. The Queer Baroque of Léopold L. Foulem, Paul Mathieu, Richard Milette. (Edited by Paula Sarson)
No. 109 – winter 2015
Raqs Media Collective: Casebook.
André-Louis ParéNo. 108 – fall 2014
Renewing Sculpture’s Possibilities
Maxime CoulombeNo. 108 – fall 2014
Sculpture, You Ask?
Marie-Hélène LeblancNo. 108 – fall 2014
Man and Machine in Sculpture and in War Alike
Josianne PoirierNo. 108 – fall 2014
Soundscape as material
Peter DubéNo. 108 – fall 2014
Metaphorical Spaces : An Interview with James Nizam
RM VaughanNo. 108 – fall 2014
Monoceros: of the Earth, for the Stars (a meditation on the concretized magyck of FASTWÜRMS)
André-Louis ParéNo. 108 – fall 2014
The space that remains : an interview with Guillaume La Brie
Rupert NuttleNo. 108 – fall 2014
Derya Akay: Material Hangings, Hangouts
Hili PerlsonNo. 108 – fall 2014
If You Are So Smart, Why Aint’ You Rich?
Tai van ToornNo. 108 – fall 2014
Hua Jin: Conversing in the Passing of Time
Peter DubéNo. 108 – fall 2014
RM Vaughan, Compared to Hitler: Selected Essays
André-Louis ParéNo. 107 – spring-summer 2014
New Espace, New Perspectives
Claire KuenyNo. 107 – spring-summer 2014
Beyond sculpture, the shadow ?
Sylvie CoellierNo. 107 – spring-summer 2014
Sculpture today: Somewhere between enclosure and expansion
André-Louis ParéNo. 107 – spring-summer 2014
The possibles of sculpture
Aseman SabetNo. 107 – spring-summer 2014
Jeff Thomas. Reclaiming One’s History in Public Space
Bénédicte RamadeNo. 107 – spring-summer 2014
Confronting destinies: Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno
Petra HalkesNo. 107 – spring-summer 2014
Bozica Radjenovic. Unraveling Tension
Gil McElroyNo. 107 – spring-summer 2014
Gareth Lichty. Gabion Tower
Bernard SchützeNo. 107 – spring-summer 2014
Heteropolis. Published by Adaptive Actions
Alexandre NunesNo. 107 – spring-summer 2014
Stephen Wright, Toward a Lexicon of Usership
Éric ValentinNo. 106 - winter 2013
Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Can Bruggen. Public Sculpture, Architecture and Urbanism
Nycole PaquinNo. 106 - winter 2013
The Illuminated Cave. Dale Chihully’s Exhilarating Shadows
André-Louis ParéNo. 106 - winter 2013
The Ar(t)chitecture of Tadashi Kawamata: Between disruption and reconciliation
Jessica LiNo. 106 - winter 2013
Yam Lau: A World is a Model of the World
John K. GrandeNo. 106 - winter 2013
Peter Hutchinson – With Nature in Mind
Petra HalkesNo. 106 - winter 2013
Anna Frlan: Interbellum III
Iris AmizlevNo. 106 - winter 2013
Tino Sehgal. Esse est percipi—To be is to be perceived 1
Dion KlinerNo. 106 - winter 2013
Richard Clements’ Day Treadeth On Night
Gil McElroyNo. 106 - winter 2013
Ai WeiWei: According to What?
No. 106 - winter 2013
Philip Monk, Glamour Is Theft : A user’s guide to General Idea, 1969-1978
Laurent VernetNo. 105 - fall 2013
The Spectacle of Art
Josianne PoirierNo. 105 - fall 2013
Articulated Intersect and the Spectacle System
Julie BoivinNo. 105 - fall 2013
Center Stage: Recuperating the object in Debordian discourse
Catherine LalondeNo. 105 - fall 2013
The End of the Comet? (Interview with René Blouin)
Denis LongchampsNo. 105 - fall 2013
Ghost stories..
Gil McElroyNo. 105 - fall 2013
Clint Neufeld: Pipe Dreams of Madame Récamier
Margaret RodgersNo. 105 - fall 2013
Andrea Carvalho, Made to Measure: and more ideas on space
André-Louis ParéNo. 103-104 – spring-summer 2013
Mapped Space: Walking, Travelling, Sculpting
Nathalie Casemajor LoustauNo. 103-104 – spring-summer 2013
Mark Lombardi’s Topographies of Power: The Work in the Map
Gilles A. TiberghienNo. 103-104 – spring-summer 2013
The Imaginary Cartographic World in Contemporary Art 1
Nathalie Daniel-RisacherNo. 103-104 – spring-summer 2013
Cartography and Contemporary Art. “The Body of the Place.” 1
Martin ChampagneNo. 103-104 – spring-summer 2013
Réal Patry : Private Properties
Bénédicte RamadeNo. 103-104 – spring-summer 2013
Geolocation: You Are Here
François ChalifourNo. 103-104 – spring-summer 2013
Depart, Remain; Nostalgia and Melancholy in the Work of Jean-Yves Vigneau
André-Louis ParéNo. 103-104 – spring-summer 2013
Atlas of Movements: the Montreal Walks (interview with Christoph Fink)
Aseman SabetNo. 103-104 – spring-summer 2013
New Problematics of the Ephemeral
Edisabel Marrero TejedaNo. 103-104 – spring-summer 2013
Ingrid Bachmann. On Truth and Lies in the stricto sensu
John K. GrandeNo. 103-104 – spring-summer 2013
Roland Poulin: Ultime dialogue
Natalie OlanickNo. 103-104 – spring-summer 2013
Penelope Stewart: Apian Screen
Gil McElroyNo. 103-104 – spring-summer 2013
Lyla Rye: Cyclorama
No. 103-104 – spring-summer 2013
José Luis Torres: Autoconstrucciones
Serge FisetteNo. 102 - winter 2012
Restoring Sculpture
Francine CoutureNo. 102 - winter 2012
Conservation, a Collaborative Act between the Artist and the Conservator
Nathalie Daniel-RisacherNo. 102 - winter 2012
Daniel Buren, Les deux plateaux. A Controversial Restoration
Serge FisetteNo. 102 - winter 2012
Restoring Public Sculpture in Montréal (Interview with Snejanka Popova 1)
Claude PayerNo. 102 - winter 2012
Restoration of a Remarkable Corpus by Sculptor Pierre-Noël Levasseur
Aseman SabetNo. 102 - winter 2012
On the Public in Art: Decompartmentalization and Transgression
John K. GrandeNo. 102 - winter 2012
From N.E. Thing Co. to Gold, Silver & Lead
Gil McElroyNo. 102 - winter 2012
Zeke Moores: Constructs
Nycole PaquinNo. 101 - fall 2012
The Great and the LITTLE World: On the Scale of Excessive
Manon RegimbaldNo. 101 - fall 2012
The Call of Excessiveness. On the Works of Jérôme Fortin and Guy Laramée
Marjolaine ArpinNo. 101 - fall 2012
The Miniature and the Boundless
Alessandra MarianiNo. 101 - fall 2012
Megalomanias: Architecture, Urbanism and Their Fictions
John K. GrandeNo. 101 - fall 2012
Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison: How Big is Here?
Mireille PerronNo. 101 - fall 2012
Greg Payce: Illusions
Ray EllenwoodNo. 101 - fall 2012
The Passion of the Patenteux
No. 101 - fall 2012
Eco-Art
No. 58 - Winter 2001-02
Sculpting the Imagination : an interview with Raymond Gervais