Montez Press

Montez Press is very pleased to present The Interjection Calendar 010, celebrating a decade of artist-led contributions, guest edited by Rhea Dillon.

The Interjection Calendar is a project devised and hosted by Montez Press. Each month an artist or writer is commissioned to produce a new piece of work for release on our website. At the end of the year the collection is published, demonstrating a diverse range of collaborations and experimental works, mapping the year in contemporary art writing, with equal space held for the emerging and the established. The Calendar reflects the current importance of online content media, pushing the relationship between image and text in this domain.

From the Editor’s Note by Rhea Dillon:
In editing there is no space. A lack of space due to the length of a piece. A lack of space due to time with the piece. And, a lack of space to hide from the reality of those outside of yourself. How do you learn to be in between first-person desire and third-person reception? Secondness, perhaps. Secondary, absolutely.

All I know is that a mirror makes a reflection,
and
a reflection makes a symbol,
and mine
looks like
a spade.

A Mirror, A Symbol; A Spade

Contributors
Mayra A.Rodríguez Castro, raphaëlle red, Oisín Roberts, Issy Wood, Tiana Reid, Taha Afefe, Octavia Bürgel, Ladin Awad, Abiba Coulibaly, Ryan C. Clarke, Yi Wei and Cheryl Clarke.

Editor

Rhea Dillon is an artist, writer and poet based in London. Dillon works across sculpture, painting, olfaction and wide-ranging materials to articulate an aesthetic of diasporic Blackness grounded in a postcolonial nonbeing. Her charged exhibitions and writing use poet(h)ics, abstraction, and everyday objects to produce distinctive arrangements of sense and affect. Dillon’s work is a long intergenerational study that connects to her ancestors through her eclectic armoury and experimentation with different forms.

Dillon’s first institutional solo exhibition An Alterable Terrain was recently held at Tate Britain as part of the Art Now series. To accompany this exhibition, a book of the same title was edited by her and published by Tate Publishing in 2024.

In 2021 the artist presented Catgut – The Opera as part of Park Nights at the Serpentine Pavilion, and a publication of the same title was published in 2023 by Worms Publishing.
Recent solo and group exhibitions from 2024 include Fractal Being at Cordova, Barcelona; Gestural Poetics at Soft Opening at Paul Soto, Los Angeles; Air de Repos (Breathwork) at Capc Bordeaux; Tituba, qui pour nous protéger? at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Conversations at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; Each now, is the time, the space at Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore; and Janus at Berggruen Arts & Culture in partnership with The Kitchen, Palazzo Diedo, Venice. She is an Elaine G. Weitzen Studio Program Fellow at the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program 2024/2025 in New York.