Performance 20’

Collica & Partners, Catania

ph Ela Bialkowska, OKNOstudio;

ph Nicola Morittu

Montini, among the leading voices of queer culture, is an extraordinary interpreter of the emotional fragility and social precariousness that conditions certain segments of contemporary society, often marginalized and engaged in a daily struggle to achieve "normality." He addresses some of the demands of the LGBTQ+ community in a society that struggles to accept them and fights any attitude that could undermine the basis of its old Christian identity in building a more secular society. The most practiced artistic language is performance, and the use of other media is always a consequence of the same. On this occasion Montini proposes a performance entitled “PECCATO DI DIO”.

The action is a clear allusion to how controversial and debated the relationship and acceptance of LGBTQ+ people is within Western and Catholic society. In the performances, the artist's emotional and physical condition is pushed to the extreme, in a crescendo of tension that results, more often than not, in defeat. To be interpreted, however, as an extreme testimony of consciousness and love, of persistent attempt, rather than as a chronicle of failure. The action expresses resistance to a society that struggles to accept diversity and it is the manifesto to appeal to in the name of a "normality" invoked but far from being achieved. Ropes pulled by the audience draw with the artist's arms a cross that rises above a structure of women's shoes. A symbol, central to our Western culture, planted on a precarious support, which slowly, overcome by the tension of the ropes, fails to the ground renewing that still unheard cry.

from “Le nostre ferite sono le ferite della storia”