{"id":312861,"date":"2026-02-05T14:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/?p=312861"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:24:48","slug":"the-montreal-museum-of-contemporary-art-has-acquired-the-purgatorium-by-lindsay-montgomery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/en\/the-montreal-museum-of-contemporary-art-has-acquired-the-purgatorium-by-lindsay-montgomery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art has acquired The Purgatorium by Lindsay Montgomery."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With\u00a0<em>The Purgatorium<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/en\/artistes\/lindsay-montgomery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lindsay Montgomery<\/a> continues her Neo-Istoriato series, in which she reimagines medieval iconography and the traditions of Italian Renaissance ceramics through a feminist and ecological lens. Created in 2023 during her work as Visiting Assistant Professor at Alfred University (New York), this monumental funerary urn draws inspiration in particular from the theme of the Four Seasons and the figure of Winter, here transformed into a monstrous entity manipulated by the fathers of the Enlightenment. The work draws a poignant parallel between the collapse of the natural world under Western civilization, the loss of bodily autonomy for women, and the intimate awareness of the passage of time and mortality. Both a ritual object, a symbol of purification, and a space of memory, <em>The Purgatorium<\/em>\u00a0bears witness to the fragility of existence and the urgency of rethinking our relationship with the living world.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-312855\" src=\"https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/02\/montgomery-the-purgatorium-vase-2023-548x1024-1-161x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/02\/montgomery-the-purgatorium-vase-2023-548x1024-1-161x300.jpg 161w, https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/02\/montgomery-the-purgatorium-vase-2023-548x1024-1-268x500.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Montgomery,\u00a0<em>The Purgatorium Vase<\/em>, 2023, Tin-glazed earthenware, 89 x 40 x 34 cm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With\u00a0The Purgatorium,\u00a0Lindsay Montgomery continues her Neo-Istoriato series, in which she reimagines medieval iconography and the traditions of Italian Renaissance ceramics through a feminist and ecological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312900,"href":"https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312861\/revisions\/312900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiguerartcontemporain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}