MONTAUK: A State of Mind
February 5, 2026 @ 6:00 pm - February 7, 2026 @ 9:00 pm
Some wounds don’t heal.
Some things can never be forgotten.
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Damir Ferhatović would like you to know that he’s been in a four-year low.
Damir Ferhatović would like you to know that he’s been having apocalyptic dreams.
Damir Ferhatović would like to let you in on a little secret: he’s been putting himself back together. Slowly. Piece by piece.
Damir Ferhatović would like you to know that on February 5th, 6th, and 7th of 2026, from 6PM to 9PM he will be releasing his first novel, MONTAUK, at a truly memorable book signing and photography exhibit.
14 prints and 412 pages. That’s what he has to show for. That’s his legacy.
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A love story perfumed with an air of apocalypse, MONTAUK takes place over the course of a single night. Within the dimly lit dining room of a two-storey house resting on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic, K and S, two twenty-somethings, struggle to communicate over poorly heated leftovers, their awkward pauses punctuated by yelps from their mini-schnauzer Ava. They’ve been drifting apart for months and both sense suffocating routine haunting their every miscommunicated intention. Existential dread comes suddenly as the thump of a car crashing into a tree on their front lawn jolts the women from mundanity into a chilling reality where a multi-hued alien traveller, wanting nothing more than to plunge their world into a suffocating silence, awaits them. Presented in three pieces, titled SISYPHUS, ixion, and TaNtAlUs, MONTAUK draws inspiration from these Greek mythological figures to examine mental illness, betrayal, the futility in being seen, and how loss moulds us into people we never thought we’d become. MONTAUK begs the following: What do we hold on to, where do we turn, and who do we become when we sense our looming, inescapable annihilation?
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Damir Ferhatović would like you to know that he’s still here.
Damir Ferhatović would like you to know that you deserve happiness.
Damir Ferhatović would like you to know that love never dies. We only think it does.
Artspeak Gallery
1942 Wyandotte Street E
Windsor,
N8Y1E4
Phone: 5199916350