Den of Wolves

2020. Video (color, sound), media player, projector, 19 min., seamless loop. Edition of 3, 1AP.

Den of Wolves is a seamlessly-looping video installation drawing on a range of references to weave a new multi-layered mythology. The work follows three bizarre wolves through a series of increasingly surreal retail stores as they search for the regalia of a monarch. Composed of one continuous camera shot, the work is an immersive, dreamlike journey drawing connections between popular culture, institutional authority and technological over-dependence.

Photo of video installation Den of Wolves by Jonathan Monaghan, projected in dim gallery space, showing a white wolf in a consumer electronics store.

Still from Den of Wolves by Jonathan Monaghan, showing a gray wolf in riot gear dragging a red ermine robe in a supermarket aisle.

Still from Den of Wolves by Jonathan Monaghan, showing the US Capitol building with a organic grocery store below it, blue sky.

Still from Den of Wolves by Jonathan Monaghan, showing a white wolf in a consumer electronics store.

Still from Den of Wolves by Jonathan Monaghan, showing clouds floating in the interior rotunda of the US Capitol, pastel hues.

Still from Den of Wolves by Jonathan Monaghan, showing a red beast with plastic electronics in an empty supermarket.

Photo of museum visitors viewing a large-scale, video installation titled Den of Wolves by artist Jonathan Monaghan, projected on a hanging screen in a dim gallery.