My practice explores and celebrates the inherently magical and elastic nature of identity. Its endless potential is researched through the creation of still and moving images and their intertwining. Performance is the starting off point and acts as a ritual to analyse gender non-conformity as a political act of transgression. The ramifications concerning transformation, liberation and healing form the overriding intention.
Exhibitions:
Choreographies of Belonging, Moving Time Frames, curated by Sarah Möller, Teatro San Materno, Ascona, Switzerland
The Shape of the Divine, Les Insolites, Tangier, Morocco
Ode to Satie (or the unresolved chords of the fragmented self), POOL Movement Art Film Festival, Doc 11, Berlin, Germany
Just a Dream, Sarah Shepard Gallery, Larkspur, California, USA
Into the Light, Vanessa Vainio Gallery, Cromwell Place, London, UK
Dancing on the Moon, Noho Gallery, London, UK
The Agony & The Ecstasy, Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, Goldsmiths, London, UK
Education:
MFA Artists’ Film & Moving Image (Goldsmiths, University of London)
MA History of Art (University of Oxford)
BA Social and Political Sciences (University of Durham)
Sasha Monty trained in ballet and contemporary dance at Rambert under the Thérèse Cantine scholarship.
Interview with Sasha Monty by choreographer and film director Silja Tuovinen