An exhibition curated by Serge Allaire
October 3 – December 13, 2025
Opening : Thursday, October 2nd, 2025 as of 5:30 pm @ Artexte’s exhibition space
As part of the satellite program of MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Artexte welcomes art and photography historian Serge Allaire, who presents an exhibition focusing on 60 recently published photography books in Quebec between 2021 and 2025. These photobooks are structured around a subject or a theme through which the juxtaposition of images and their sequential organization construct a narrative. The Photobook in Quebec: Current Perspectives explores the tendencies, genres and aesthetic considerations that characterize this recent production by Quebec photographers.
Read the exhibition booklet HERE [to come]
Take a look at the exhibited documents HERE [to come]
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), Les arts au Québec dans les années soixante (volume II, VLB Éditeur, 1993), and John Max. Quelque chose suit son cours (Musée de la photographie, Belgium, 1997). He has also written specialized articles for Spirale, Ciel Variable, and Vie des arts 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, notably at the Photaumnales, at the Polycopies international photography book fair, and at Loco, and in Montreal in partnership with MOMENTA Biennale de l’image. 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).
With the photobooks of:
Maude Arsenault, Jessica Auer, Richard Baillargeon, Judith Bellavance, Ned Bojic, André Boucher, Sarah Boutin, Bertrand Carrière, Serge Clément, Donigan Cumming, Alexis Desgagnés, Simon Émond, Pierre Fauteux, Michael Flomen, Geoffrey James, Hua Jin, Janie Julien-Fort, Jules Gauthier, Lorraine Gilbert, Silvia Gérome, Clara Gutsche, Michel Hardy-Vallée, Hors d’état (Betty Bogaert, David Champagne, François Gamache, Émilie Gratton, Thibaut Ketterer, Elisabeth Marcoux, Kassandra Reynolds), Francois Hosy, Kate Hutchinson, Alphiya Joncas, Mathieu L’Heureux Roy, Alix Labelle, Joannie Lafrenière, Éliot B. Lafrenière, Sandra Larochelle, Mélissa Longpré, Mallory Lowe Mpoka, Valerian Mazataud, Claire Moeder, Marc Nolin, Marion Paquette, Jacques Payette, José Pedneault, Louis Perreault, Jocelyn Philibert, Renaud Philippe, Marisa Portolese, Anne-Marie Proulx, Normand Rajotte, Joyce Ryckman, Fatine-Violette Sabiri, William Sabourin, Chuck Samuels, Quentin Savignac, Patricia Schwarz, Ariel Tarr, Eve Tagny, Geneviève Thibault, Sara A. Tremblay, Ewa Monika Zebrowski.