Stephanie Montes

Stephanie Montes produced her La lueur du désastre series during the imposed lockdown in spring 2020, while she was in residency in Monthey as part of an exchange between Columbia and Switzerland. Working with these unusual restrictions, this Columbian artist creates tension by juxtaposing photos of lonely landscapes with black and white family snapshots from the first half of the 20th century. She collates her images from various online sources and photo albums, selecting them for the story they tell, with emotion as the essential criterion. During Festival Images, Stephanie Montes proposes a series of thought-provoking ‘paintings’, where old photos hinting at dreams, poetry and complicity are superimposed on the grandeur of alpine landscapes devoid of any human activity.