Performance by Monster Chetwynd during Malmö Gallery Weekend

Monster Chetwynd’s artistic work borrows, explores and mixes from both iconic moments of cultural history and more contemporary popular culture. Per work, which includes installation, performance and painting, has its own distinct style, characterized by improvisation and spontaneity in execution, but always based on solid research. In the Turbine Hall at Moderna Museet Malmö, the visitor is greeted by a large-scale cat head – “Cat Head” (2022) – made up of simple materials such as cardboard, fabric and wood. It takes its place in a welcoming way and also offers the viewer to enter through the mouth and out into another room.

In connection to Malmö Gallery Weekend, Monster Chetwynd presents a newly produced cabaret-like performance, with the working title Evolution of Cat People (2024). Chetwynd, along with per loosely assembled ensemble of colleagues and friends, will, in per recognizable playful manner, offer song, dance and popular science lecture in colorful costumes and masks. With artistic means, a community is created where actors and audience are linked together. Chetwynd’s work has the ability to seduce and spread positivism, while at the same time a certain sense of uncertainty can arise in the various encounters. Here, an ability to capture life as a sometimes irrational state and create something hopeful in everyday drama is revealed.

Performers: Mimi Uzor, Vanessa Nadja Benz, Lukas Ostrež, Ladina Whitehead, Raquel Arias, Lucy Soni, Jack Brennan, Paul Kindersley, Ella Soni, Monster Chetwynd, LeoDragon Chetwynd, Mamon Hawkins Hummingbird, Sonja Fury, Arttu Palmio, Jacob

A selection of photos from Monster Chetwynd’s well-attended performance “Evolution of Cat People” during Malmö Gallery Weekend