synchronicities
an exhibition
“It starts with the gaze. In reflection, something familiar appears; our vulnerable nature is exposed. Its surfaces become an echo chamber for tonalities belonging to the fragile. In layers of blues and purples, I navigate into themes of source, time, and transience. Synchronic and interconnected, the fragments catch light, and unfold before they vanish like fireflies.”
“The singular, hovering omnipotent eye, for whom does it gaze? ”
Working with installation as a medium in itself, and with light, movement and the fragmentary as entrances, Montmare choreographs spaces for the viewer to enter their own personal visual world. The result is a sensory experience where a series of scripted events unfold, and time and space change. Synchronicities is the most encompassing review of Montmare’s art practice and includes works from 1995 to 2025. The exhibition offers poetic, fragmented tales woven together in an interplay of photography, film, painting, text, sculpture, and installation. With the fragmented contemporary world as a starting point, the artist uses the different parts and shards of personal experience, to create new layers. Through her practice, Montmare works with the notions of interior and exterior landscapes, to explore themes such as identity, home, time, and transience. The artist investigates the relationship between humankind, natural, and spiritual realms — between the visible and the hidden, the tangible and the ephemeral — as if in a waking dream. Stitched together, they become something that resembles a kaleidoscope of an installation.
[ Angelica Blomhage, Curator Gotland Museum ]
Triangulation (2010)
Rise and fall (2023)
Liriope (2024)
Phantasme #1 (2002) collaboration with Charlotte Åberg
Ascension, sculpture in limestone, white sand, and cement (2025), Partition (2022)
Installation at Gotland Museum
“Montmare’s way of using the island’s incredibly beautiful nature as a backdrop for our most difficult social challenges hits us right in the gut. The installation first felt like stepping into something quiet and beautiful, but the longer we stood there, the more the unspoken came to light. It was as if the images whispered: Look at this, don’t turn away. She opens up a space where we can grieve, yet hope for a more humane future. We left the exhibition deeply moved, with the feeling that this type of art is needed right now. ”