My practice explores and celebrates the inherently elastic nature of identity. Its endless potential is researched through the creation of still and moving images, and their intertwining.
Performance is a catalyst and acts as a ritual with which to document the deeply personal processes of transformation, liberation, and healing connected with the gender non-conforming journey.
Since 2025, I have been experimenting with make-up, as well as textiles and embroidery in my practice, to adorn the photographic paper. This is incorporated as a continued enquiry into the materiality of the photograph as object, in an attempt to further break apart the mechanisms at play in more conventional image making.
EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming:
Architectures of Belonging: Identity, Place, and Otherness, August 28 — October 31 2026, Artsy online exhibition
This Majestic Place Called Home, November 5 2026 — January 9 2027 , Curatorial Gallery, South Kensington, London
Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris. November 12 — 15, 2026, with Curatorial Gallery, London
Zona Maco, Centro Citibanamex, Mexico City. February 3 — 7, 2027, with Curatorial Gallery, London
Past:
Choreographies of Belonging, Jumping Frames — International Moving Image Festival, curated by Elysa Wendi, Broadway Cinematèque, Hong Kong, China
Choreographies of Belonging, Moving Time Frames, curated by Sarah Möller, Teatro San Materno, Ascona, Switzerland
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:
MA 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