Essay in Prefix Photo: Chromophobia–Race, Colour and Visual Pleasure in Richard Mosse’s “The Enclave”

by Gabby | Nov 17, 2015 | Photography

After many months of research—spent either slack-jawed in awe or infuriated over catalogue essays, image captions and formulaic exhibition reviews—and writing and editing, my first effort at unpacking Richard Mosse’s photographic work in the Democratic Republic...

Out now: New Documents’ book, Jon Rafman, “Nine Eyes”

by Gabby | Sep 22, 2015 | Photography

I could not be more pleased to be included in this just-released monograph on the work of the brilliant, Sobey-nominated Jon Rafman, edited by Kate Steinmann and brought to you by New Documents (some of the same folks behind Fillip). My 2011 essay, “Exhaustive...

“Stopping the Sun in its Course,” reviewed for Canadian Art

by Gabby | Aug 20, 2015 | Reviews

I spent a month in Los Angeles this summer, and though I was technically on vacation, managed to see a number of shows in the city, most of which meditated in some way on poetry: or, at the very least, the role of language in meaning-making. While many of them left me...

How to Write a Review of Richard Mosse’s “The Enclave”

by Gabby | Jul 15, 2015 | Photography, Reviews

I’ve been working on an essay about Richard Mosse’s The Enclave (2013) for the past few months, reading every review, interview and essay I can get my hands on. And, in a way I have never before experienced when researching a contemporary artwork, there is...

Exhibition essay for Hajra Waheed’s “Asylum in the Sea” at the Darling Foundry, Montreal

by Gabby | Jul 9, 2015 | Exhibition Essays, Photography

I recently had the pleasure of writing an exhibition essay to accompany a new body of work by the Montreal-based artist Hajra Waheed, currently on view at Montreal’s Darling Foundry. “Asylum in the Sea” is a suite of 24 new paintings and collages...