Matthew Monteith - The Hospital

Matthew Monteith takes an interest in the functional aspects of the group of hospitals in Clermont-Ferrand. Through his “portraits” of machines and of the medical staff, Monteith makes the various practical aspects of the institution appear by revealing what he considers to be one giant machine composed of a multitude of human and technological elements. His space is one in which everyone, including the patients and the staff, is under constant examination by both human and technological eyes.

Matthew Monteith is American and lives in New York.  He studied photography at Yale University and at the International Center of Photography, New York. His work on portraiture and landscape has led him to travel extensively, in particular to the Czech Republic where he lived for one year on a Fulbright Fellowship. He has exhibited at Rencontres d'Arles (2005), Prinz Gallery, Kyoto (2004), Murray Guy, New York (2004), Placemaker Gallery, Miami (2004), 779 Gallery, Paris (2003), as well as Galerie de la Butte, Festival de Cherbourg-Octeville (2002).