Category Archive: Art
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Shirin Neshat – Women Without Men
When I first moved to Montreal, more than 10 years now, one of my first exhibits I remember going to was Shirin Neshat‘s retrospective exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum in Montreal. It was Wednesday free night at the museum and it was packed but Neshat’s work was just so incredibly striking that sitting on [...]
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Adam Magyar – Urban Flow
This is a small detail of Adam Magyar’s panoramic work from his series Urban Flow. His images are captured on the streets of major cities with his self-developed digital slit-cam. The camera is like that of a photo-finish camera in a sports race. The objects need to be moving to be recorded so the lines [...]
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The Philippines Day 1 – Wawi Navarroza
This week I will be looking at photographers from the Philippines. The reason for looking at the Southeast Asia area is primarily because of a post by Asian Photography Blog. Yaohong posted about CUT 09, an exhibition featuring photographers from the Southeast Asia region. This is where I found Wawi Navarroza’s work. I didn’t need [...]
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Spring Hurlbut – Deuil
Deuil from artist Spring Hurlbut is absolutely wonderful. She works with cremated remains and deals with death on a whole other level. She evokes humbleness through a plastic bag, through numbers and shapes. She creates constellation-like forms in a void of endless black as if setting the soul free. This series grows on you the [...]
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Papier 08 – Montreal’s Contemporary Art Fair
Today i’m straying from photography. This past weekend in Montreal, the Paper art fair was on. So work with mainly painting and drawing. I went to the opening night and it was really crowded but did manage to see some really nice work. There was a small piece by Julie Ouellet, who is represented by [...]
