Tag: art
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Review: BATHERS BY RUTH KAPLAN | DAMIANI (November 2025)
In Bathers, Canadian photographer Ruth Kaplan explores public baths as a primordial stage where the human body appears in all its vulnerable splendor. By photographing spaces of shared nudity, she seeks to capture bodies freed from social artifices, suspended between modesty and revelation.
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Review: Japan Art Revolution, From Angura To Provoke | Amélie Ravalec (November 2025)
Amélie Ravalec’s Japan Art Revolution. From Angura to Provoke revisits one of the most incendiary moments in Japanese visual history, born from the ruins of a nation scarred by war and occupation. The author shows how, in the 1960s and 1970s, photography, theatre and politics intertwined to become the vectors of a shared revolt.
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Review: Fear of Mirrors by Alba Zari | XYZ Books and Yogurt Editions (November 2025)
Alba Zari’s book Fear of Mirrors explores the fragility of the gaze in a world saturated with images. The faces that appear seem to float between surface and depth, as if trying to hold on to something already slipping away. Each portrait questions the very possibility of self-recognition, now that the mirror has become a screen—ever-present, ever-watching.
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Review : EDWARD WESTON: BECOMING MODERN | MEP (October 2025)
The exhibition “Edward Weston — Modernity Revealed,” presented at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, traced the emergence of photographic modernity through more than one hundred vintage prints from the Wilson Centre for Photography.
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Exhibition review : L’usure du milieu de l’art : zone sinistrée dans un décor de théâtre abandonné by Milutin Gubash at Galerie UQO (2025)
The exhibition The Wear and Tear of the Art World: Disaster Zone in an Abandoned Theater Set by Milutin Gubash, curated by Marie-Hélène Leblanc at Galerie UQO (November 20, 2024 – January 18, 2025), explores the tensions between artistic production, obsolescence, and commodification. The gallery is transformed into a chaotic space filled with second-hand objects, evoking a…
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Presentation: Fictional Disability in Artistic Science Fiction (April 2, 2025)
From Crash (1996) to Alita: Battle Angel (2019), via Avatar (2009), science fiction cinema has increasingly featured characters with simulated disabilities, reflecting a growing fascination with altered, hybrid, or augmented bodies at the intersection of eroticism, power, and technology. This talk explored how photographers Helmut Newton and Joel-Peter Witkin have created fictional representations that serve as critical tools for questioning norms,…
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Between Seeing and Being: The Dichotomy of the Body in Medical and Artistic Imagery in the Phenomenological Experience (2024-2026)
How do medical and artistic images transform our perception of the body? This postdoctoral research explores the dichotomy between the living body and its technical representation. By intersecting art and medicine, it examines how medical imaging, purportedly objective, and artistic imagery, laden with emotions, shape our bodily experience in the 21st century.