HONEY MOON
4k Digital video, 02:50, 2019. Produced for Midnight Moment, Times Square Arts, NY, NY. HONEY MOON screened every night at midnight across the digital billboards in NYC's Times Square in February 2019.
HONEY MOON is a serene and sensorial short film about the uncanny flow of time. Coyly literal, the film depicts a manicured hand cradling a small model moon as honey sensually streams into a void below. HONEY MOON was shot by VLM in a single, 170-second take. The film is simple, surreal, and straightforward, yet HONEY MOON conjures contemplation.
HONEY MOON – TIMES SQUARE, DOCUMENTATION VIDEO
PRESS RELEASE
HONEY MOON, Times Square Arts
February 1, 2019 – February 28, 2019
Virginia L. Montgomery is an experimental artist moving freely between video, performance, and sculpture, and influenced by materiality, sensorial experiences, and metaphysics. Her work is feminist and latently autobiographical, and is paradoxically conceptual, mysterious, and direct. Her surreal artworks feature recursive symbols including circles, holes, and spheres.Often performing in her own films, VLM works intuitively with her camera, using unexpected props and viscous fluids to choreograph time like a material. Her hand-made, intimate videos reveal insight into liminal space.
HONEY MOON (2018) was performed, produced, and edited by Montgomery, and filmed by the artist in a single, 170-second take within a miniature set, custom-built from black mirror planes. The title is coyly literal and the work itself is straightforward, documenting a real-time, solo performance with simple materials. And yet the effect is dreamlike, with a syrupy slowness that encourages serene contemplation.
In the center of the screen, amidst a dark void, a single hand — left, white, French manicure — holds a glowing model Moon. In two bursts, a second, unseen hand pours honey onto the orb. The viscous, aerated, translucent gold fluid flows over the surface of the Moon and the fingers of the hand, streaming into the darkness below. The fingers seem to react to the experience, moving through the honey and caressing the globe.
“We live in an age that often feels more unreal than real, in which things seem to move faster than we can perceive them. As an artist, I wanted to do something different; I wanted to create a sculptural film that felt material, soothing, and real. The inspiration to hold the Moon came from a dream. There, I touched the Moon and found peace. Times Square moves so fast. HONEY MOON asks that we slow down.” — VLM
HONEY MOON is presented in partnership with Socrates Sculpture Park in concurrence with Virginia L. Montgomery’s exhibition in The Socrates Annual, the culminating exhibition of its annual artist fellowship program, for which Montgomery was one of fifteen artists selected through a competitive open-call application process. Her project SWORD IN THE SPHINX will be on view at Socrates as part of the exhibition from October 7, 2018 – March 10, 2019.
“We are thrilled to partner once again with the Alliance to bring one of our Artist Fellows from Socrates Sculpture Park into Times Square. With her distinctly sculptural approach to video, artist Virginia L. Montgomery is the perfect fit for Midnight Moment. She gives video body and density that is unique during a moment when it spills inconsequentially in and out of our daily lives. Viewing her sculpture and accompanying video on view now at Socrates with HONEY MOON enriches and illuminates VLM's evolving alternate feminine mythology.” — Jess Wilcox, Director of Exhibitions, Socrates Sculpture Park
HONEY MOON – TIMES SQUARE DOCUMENTATION IMAGES
Images courtesy of Ka-Man Tse for Times Square Arts.
HONEY MOON, VIDEO STILL
4k Digital video, 02:50, 2019.
HONEY MOON – TIMES SQUARE DOCUMENTATION IMAGES
Images courtesy of Mark Chong.
HONEY MOOON, TIMES SQUARE ARTS'
MIDNIGHT MOMENT – PROJECT WEBSITE
Additional project information with artist interview:
• Midnight Moment at Times Square Arts
• HONEY MOON for Midnight Moment x Miami Art Basel, 2024, World Symphony Building, Miami, FL
https://hellovlm.com/HONEY-MOON
4k Digital video, 02:50, 2019. Produced for Midnight Moment, Times Square Arts, NY, NY. HONEY MOON screened every night at midnight across the digital billboards in NYC's Times Square in February 2019.
HONEY MOON is a serene and sensorial short film about the uncanny flow of time. Coyly literal, the film depicts a manicured hand cradling a small model moon as honey sensually streams into a void below. HONEY MOON was shot by VLM in a single, 170-second take. The film is simple, surreal, and straightforward, yet HONEY MOON conjures contemplation.
HONEY MOON – TIMES SQUARE, DOCUMENTATION VIDEO
PRESS RELEASE
HONEY MOON, Times Square Arts
February 1, 2019 – February 28, 2019
Virginia L. Montgomery is an experimental artist moving freely between video, performance, and sculpture, and influenced by materiality, sensorial experiences, and metaphysics. Her work is feminist and latently autobiographical, and is paradoxically conceptual, mysterious, and direct. Her surreal artworks feature recursive symbols including circles, holes, and spheres.Often performing in her own films, VLM works intuitively with her camera, using unexpected props and viscous fluids to choreograph time like a material. Her hand-made, intimate videos reveal insight into liminal space.
HONEY MOON (2018) was performed, produced, and edited by Montgomery, and filmed by the artist in a single, 170-second take within a miniature set, custom-built from black mirror planes. The title is coyly literal and the work itself is straightforward, documenting a real-time, solo performance with simple materials. And yet the effect is dreamlike, with a syrupy slowness that encourages serene contemplation.
In the center of the screen, amidst a dark void, a single hand — left, white, French manicure — holds a glowing model Moon. In two bursts, a second, unseen hand pours honey onto the orb. The viscous, aerated, translucent gold fluid flows over the surface of the Moon and the fingers of the hand, streaming into the darkness below. The fingers seem to react to the experience, moving through the honey and caressing the globe.
“We live in an age that often feels more unreal than real, in which things seem to move faster than we can perceive them. As an artist, I wanted to do something different; I wanted to create a sculptural film that felt material, soothing, and real. The inspiration to hold the Moon came from a dream. There, I touched the Moon and found peace. Times Square moves so fast. HONEY MOON asks that we slow down.” — VLM
HONEY MOON is presented in partnership with Socrates Sculpture Park in concurrence with Virginia L. Montgomery’s exhibition in The Socrates Annual, the culminating exhibition of its annual artist fellowship program, for which Montgomery was one of fifteen artists selected through a competitive open-call application process. Her project SWORD IN THE SPHINX will be on view at Socrates as part of the exhibition from October 7, 2018 – March 10, 2019.
“We are thrilled to partner once again with the Alliance to bring one of our Artist Fellows from Socrates Sculpture Park into Times Square. With her distinctly sculptural approach to video, artist Virginia L. Montgomery is the perfect fit for Midnight Moment. She gives video body and density that is unique during a moment when it spills inconsequentially in and out of our daily lives. Viewing her sculpture and accompanying video on view now at Socrates with HONEY MOON enriches and illuminates VLM's evolving alternate feminine mythology.” — Jess Wilcox, Director of Exhibitions, Socrates Sculpture Park
HONEY MOON – TIMES SQUARE DOCUMENTATION IMAGES
Images courtesy of Ka-Man Tse for Times Square Arts.
HONEY MOON, VIDEO STILL
4k Digital video, 02:50, 2019.
HONEY MOON – TIMES SQUARE DOCUMENTATION IMAGES
Images courtesy of Mark Chong.
HONEY MOOON, TIMES SQUARE ARTS'
MIDNIGHT MOMENT – PROJECT WEBSITE
Additional project information with artist interview:
• Midnight Moment at Times Square Arts
• HONEY MOON for Midnight Moment x Miami Art Basel, 2024, World Symphony Building, Miami, FL
https://hellovlm.com/HONEY-MOON