The work included in GOOD Edition is from the short film Amaurosis (2007)
"Vast enough to make the search in vain. Confined enough to make escape in vain."--Samuel Beckett[1]
The images, born in the Sahara desert, leak into existence from the world surrounding, a fiction that is built by the life of a place, places of which I cannot speak or have nothing about which to report, as I refuse to become the image that is desired or expected of the places I've been or the people I have met.
All that remains is a blinding light and characters who wander around and occupy an empty space that absorbs them. A floating state, a balance between settling and dismissing, in which the environment and predicament provokes a feverish state of mind, a perpetual struggle for balance between confinement and infinite freedom. A desert that creates prisoners from those who have spent time there and yet simultaneously liberates them.
The untiring desert kleads, until to the return, and then settles upon the bodies the presence of an unbearable absence.
Monia Montali (Italy) is a dancer and photographer who lives and works in Brussels. Monia started to work as a contemporary dancer for several choreographers and fine artists. For several years, she has created personal work which stands at the crossroads of different disciplines, including projects for the stage and for exhibition installation.
