As part of the exhibition "The Photobook in Quebec: Current Perspectives"
December 6, 2025 — 2:00 pm @ Artexte
As part of the exhibition The Photobook in Quebec: Current Perspectives, Artexte invites you to its exhibition space for a guided tour led by its curator, Serge Allaire.
On the occasion of this guided tour, immerse yourself in the sixty books that make up our fall exhibition and the many photographic genres represented therein. From photo essay to social landscape, poetry to documentary photo, Serge Allaire will explore the characteristics of these genres and the unique photographic approaches used by these Quebec artists between 2021 and 2025.
[in French]
Schedule of the event:
2:00 PM: guided tour with Serge Allaire
2:45 PM : Q&A
3:00 PM : end of the event
About the curator:
Serge Allaire is a specialist in Canadian and international contemporary art history and in the history of photography in the Department of Art History at UQÀM. As an independent curator, he has contributed to several exhibitions and catalogues, as well as collaborated on various publications, including Montréal au XXe siècle : Regards de photographes (Les Éditions de l’Homme, 1995), among others. He has also written articles for local and international specialized art magazines. As an invited curator at the Rencontres internationales de la photographie in Gaspésie, Serge Allaire was responsible for the photography book section during five years. He has also organized exhibitions on photography books in France and in Montreal. As a researcher, he has completed several residencies on the theme of the photobook, notably at Artexte (Montreal, 2016) and the Canadian Photography Institute (Ottawa, 2017).