Cyclorama

Who is the woman who appears in the same dream, yet never reveals her face? Cyclorama, emerges from a period of artistic uncertainty following Montezaro's debut show Aurora, when the search for a definitive visual language led to an almost complete rejection of painting. A recurring dream of a faceless woman waiting outside a Parisian building coincided with an unexpected encounter soon after, marking a return to the canvas. The figure became a presence in the work, alongside portraits shaped by encounters, artistic struggle and the possibility that the search for others may ultimately become a search for the self.

This movement from the other towards the self runs throughout the exhibition. Figures gradually give way to self-portraits, while repeated symbols create a narrative thread running through the works, connecting seemingly separate encounters. Cyclorama evokes a panoramic field of vision, where separate fragments might briefly reveal a larger whole. Beneath these encounters lies a more fundamental question: who remains when the layers of identity, name, nationality, beliefs are removed? Cyclorama considers painting as both a tool for this search and a possible cul-de-sac, where every attempt to reach the pure self may reveal another layer instead.