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Montgomery’s work references the Situationist tradition of capturing the audience’s attention in unexpected ways within the public realm. His heartbreaking and arresting poetry can be seen on hijacked advertising billboards in London, on the sides of trucks in Istanbul, on fire in the streets of Paris and this Spring lit up in the Brooklyn sky at night.
For his show at KK Outlet Montgomery has created a series of 3 large billboard poems on Old Street which reference the moral failure of Capitalism, the concerns of the Occupy movement, and new ideas of freedom in the city.
Montgomery’s work though is not all political diatribe, his voice is as much romantic and poetic as it is issue-based. His billboard poems, “somewhere between Jenny Holzer and T.S. Eliot” also relate to a tradition of modern British avant-garde poetry and concrete poetry of which he is an acolyte and collector.