French Penguin

2009. Video (color, sound), media player, screen or projector, 2:35 min. Edition of 3, 1AP.
French Penguin fuses Gothic architecture with an Emperor Penguin, creating a new absurd life form. Like one of Dante’s nine circles, the short film portrays an ominous world where a penguin’s cyclical actions create a hallucinatory and hellish narrative.
Photo of video installation French Penguin by Jonathan Monaghan, projection dim gallery viewing room inside a white wall gallery. Photo of video installation French Penguin by Jonathan Monaghan, projection on free-standing wall in dim gallery. Still from French Penguin by Jonathan Monaghan, showing Gothic architecture, orange and white tiled floor. Still from French Penguin by Jonathan Monaghan, showing penguin's beak, fur and Gothic architecture. Still from French Penguin by Jonathan Monaghan, showing a penguin combined with a Gothic altarpiece. Still from French Penguin by Jonathan Monaghan, showing penguin's beak.