Monia Montali & François Bodeux / òmero.studio

Disciplines

Dance

Performance

Biographie
Spectacles
Contacts

Based in Brussels and Liège, Monia Montali (Italian, performer and choreographer) and François Bodeux (Belgian, visual artist) collaborate on stage projects since 2010, after a shared background in photography.

«In our practice, we weave strong connections between choreography, visual arts and sound. We bring these different languages together to generate highly dense perceptual spaces. Our aim is to create images where multiple layers of memory and meaning overlap and accumulate.

At the heart of this work lie questions of perception and time: extending the moment, shaping it through sensation, opening presence to vulnerability so that simple things may be inscribed with a different visibility.

We see this as an act of resistance in a world that tends to disconnect us from our bodies, drawing us into immediacy and an overabundance of events. To occupy places, to move away from the noise of the world, to mobilise our most hidden intuitions and sensations in order to redefine new territories for relationships».

Sur la nature des choses invisibles #1

2025

The performance is structured around a cyclical format where performers, sound and light designers interact live.

Part prayer, part war dance, part contemplation, part resistance, the choreography unfolds around the two primal energies that constitute the human being and his or her way of being in the world. It’s akin to Giacometti’s 'Walking Man', who stands between fragility and the attitude of a conqueror, body projected forward.

This piece draws from movements and postures found in early civilisation iconography. At this time, animistic and polytheistic beliefs were intertwined, and performances often assumed a magical quality, reflecting the intimate link between humans and the invisible. These gestures and postures sketch out the contours of a ritual and stand as remnants of a shared heritage.
The cyclical dynamics of the movements, music, and the light object are articulated around the principles of rupture, variation, degradation, and recommencement. This environment gradually prompts spectators to wander, deciding what to look at before taking a moment to encounter something.

Année de création

2010

Adresse

Belgium

Personnes de contact

Monia

Montali

Direction

moniamontali@yahoo.it

François

Bodeux

Direction