SIBYL MONTAGUE
Sibyl Montague works across sculpture, moving image, drawing and textiles. Her practice explores counter narratives that deconstruct popular iconography and language, making work that refects on inter-species relationships and human connections to land and resources. Combining everyday ‘poor’ material sources with the hacking and disassembly of commodity goods and media, ongoing series such as 'Handheld' or 'Proft & Loss' use thrifted, found matter and digital detritus, that is re-shaped to form new hybrid compositions. Presented as 'tools' or series of assembled objects of use, Montague's work focuses on disruptive, dissident and intimate processes of making that remediate and re-root mass material to its base as extractive, sentient and ecological. Looking to Irish language as a source, her recent work uses song and modes of story telling that re-centre knowledge and folklore gathered from rural and ancestral communities, geological and mythological sites. Montague's practice has at its heart an expression of fite fuaite - the concept of interconnectedness, interwoven and the inextricable mix between fibre and being.
Recent exhibitions include Claí na Péiste/Worm's Ditch, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios (TBG+S) Dublin (solo 2022); Hammerheads, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan (2023); Fashion Show: Clothing Art and Activism, Glucksman Gallery, Cork (2022); The Narrow Gate of Here and Now – Social Fabric, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, (2021-22); 4Ever Chemical screening with AEMI, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (solo 2021); The Law is a White Dog, curated by Sarah Browne, TULCA, Galway Arts Centre (2020); SELF SOOTHERS, VISUAL Carlow (solo 2020); Saplings, Pallas Projects, Dublin (solo 2018).
https://sibylmontague.com/
Kunstverein’s collaboration with Sibyl Montague is supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.