Monologues
Through the editing of audio excerpts taken from a language lesson, Francis Montillaud constructs in “Monologues” a video narrative featuring four characters who exchange carefully edited lines. The work places particular emphasis on the distortion of means of expression. In a wall-based scenography where the mechanics of theatre meet museum conventions, a bridge is built between disguise, the disruption of video, and the caricature of statuary.
Francis Montillaud lives and works in Montreal, where he notably produces public art and where he has worked as a scenographer. In 2007, however, he was the first “artist-in-residence” at Toronto’s Labo. He is primarily a sculptor, he said at the opening on Friday, but he also works with video.