2021
Sensing Nature

For its 17th edition, titled Sensing Nature, MOMENTA Biennale de l’image humbly urges us to consider environmental justice and its intersections with social justice as a matter of sensing and feeling as much as of analysis and grassroots activism. Although science is critically needed—not least to tackle the climate emergency—our planetary assembly of multiplicities also craves forms of knowing, feeling, and doing that create different arrangements of coexistence.

A longing for togetherness—for love—echoes insistently in the exhibitions and in this book, asking us to fathom other possible forms of worldmaking. The artists and authors invite us to forge intimate kinships with nonhuman life-worlds. They propose that we listen to—and observe, smell, touch, speak to—the land, the water, the air not with the aim of distantly understanding, grasping, or exploiting, but to resonate, to vibrate, to be together. Or, perhaps, with no aim at all. They make room for stories that dwell in the blurred boundaries between technology and ancestral wisdoms, weaving in both human and nonhuman modes of knowing. They celebrate that we are in relation with nature, that we are of nature.

Fully illustrated in color, the exhibition catalog includes three essays, artist texts and portfolios on each of the 51 artists participating in this edition.

Curators
Stefanie Hessler, in collaboration with Camille Georgeson-Usher, Maude Johnson and Himali Singh Soin
Authors
Jen Bervin, Anne-Marie Dubois, Léuli Eshrāghi, Camille Georgeson-Usher, Stefanie Hessler, Maude Johnson, Alexis Rider, Julia Roberge Van Der Donckt, Silverbear, Himali Singh Soin, Joce TwoCrows Tremblay, T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss
Languages
Available in English and French
Publishers
Co-edited by MOMENTA / Kerber Verlag
References
ISBN 978-2-9818147-4-6 (MOMENTA Biennale de l’image)
Price
45 $ / 38 €
Number of pages
168
2019
The Life of Things

Today, mass production of objects is tending to redefine the lines between material things—supposedly inert and passive—and human beings—considered the only subjects endowed with agency. Far from being impermeable to this redefinition, the image is now spreading beyond the two-dimensional space: it is becoming an object in itself. The artists and authors in this book thus explore the universes that are being built between individuals and their material environment, highlighting the reciprocal relations that are formed between subject and object.

Curator: María Wills Londoño, in collaboration with
Audrey Genois and Maude Johnson

With the contributions of artists and authors: Amanda de la Garza, Anne-Marie Dubois, Kapwani Kiwanga, Sara Knelman, Maryse Larivière, and Dominique Quessada

Curator
María Wills Londoño, in collaboration with Audrey Genois and Maude Johnson
Contributors
Amanda de la Garza, Anne-Marie Dubois, Kapwani Kiwanga, Sara Knelman, Maryse Larivière, and Dominique Quessada
Languages
Available in English and French
Publisher
Co-published by MOMENTA / Kerber Verlag
References
ISBN 978-3-7356-0608-2 (Kerber Verlag) / ISBN 978-2-9818147-0-8 (MOMENTA)
Price
$45 / 38 €
Number of pages
168
2017
What Does the Image Stand For?

Images are now so insidiously omnipresent that their nature has been obliterated. At one time photographs were indicators of reality, but how do they function today? Now that images of the whole world are being captured by everyone at every moment, what do images have to say? By considering the content and meaning of fixed and moving images, the artists and authors in this volume invite readers to cast a critical eye upon testimonials offered.

Curator
Ami Barak
Contributors
Mara Ambrozič, Mirna Boyadjian, Françoise Docquiert, Sophie Hackett, Bénédicte Ramade, and the artist Micah Lexier
Languages
Available in English and French
Publisher
Co-published by MOMENTA / Kerber Verlag
References
ISBN 978-2-9808020-8-9 (MOMENTA) / ISBN 978-3-7356-0401-9 (Kerber Verlag)
Price
$45 / 38 €
Number of pages
176
2015
Curator Joan Fontcuberta
The Post-Photographic Condition
2013
Curator Paul Wombell
Drone : The Automated Images
2011
Curator Anne-Marie Ninacs
Lucidity. Inward Views
2009
Curator Gaëlle Morel
The Spaces of the Image
2007
Curator Marie Fraser
Replaying Narrative
2005
Curator Martha Langford
Image & Imagination
2003
Curator Vincent Lavoie
NOW. Images of Present Time
2001
Curator Marie-Josée Jean
The Power of the Image
1999
Curators Pierre Blache, Marie-Josée Jean, and Anne-Marie Ninacs
Le Souci du document
1997
Photographie Catalane
1995
L’éternel et l’éphémère
1993
Aspects de la photographie québécoise et canadienne
1991
Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal
1989
Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal