Sasha Monty’s practice explores and celebrates the gendered journey by connecting the still and moving image through the medium of performance.
Their work is committed to bringing into being and witnessing notions of masculine and feminine identities, with the aim to join them together as a coherent whole.
Moving image performances:
POOL Movement Art Film Festival, Berlin (October 17 — 19 2024):
Ode to Sadie (or The Unresolved Chords of the Fragmented Self), 2023
& Choreographies of Belonging, 2023
Exhibitions:
Upcoming:
The Shape of the Divine, Les Insolites, Tangier, Morocco (Opening January 10 2025)
Past:
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.