Improvising Sight Lines
Giancarlo Montes Santangelo
Monolith
English
Softcover
First Edition of 400
48 pages
170 × 230 mm
2020
ISBN Not Available
Improvising Sight Lines is a body of photographs, collages, and writing that teases out the poetics of a queer body politic. The different methods of picture-making disrupt a set of relational codes that are naturalized by heterosexuality and thus create a queer logic. This sort of world-making attends to coherence, disjunctures, care and labor.
Giancarlo Montes Santangelo is an artist born in New York. He received his BFA in Visual Arts from SUNY Purchase College and was recently exhibited at the 2019 Whitney Bienniel. In 2018, he joined the Peace Corps and began teaching English and Photography in South Africa. His work weaves writing and photographs in order to tease out the poetics of queerness.
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About the Artist
Giancarlo Montes Santangelo, native of the DC Metropolitan area, graduated from SUNY Purchase in 2018 with a BFA in photography. In 2019, Giancarlo exhibited his photographs alongside Paul Mpagi Sepuya as part of the Whitney Biennial. In 2020, he published his first monograph, “Improvising Sight Lines” with Monolith Editions – a book that weaves together images and writing and is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the MoMA. Giancarlo was recently awarded the Aperture x Google Creator Labs Photo Fund and completed residencies with Tangent Projects and TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image.
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About the Publisher
Monolith was founded by Kris Graves and is a Black-owned publishing house dedicated to showcasing work from artists of colour across mediums that address issues of race, identity, equity, gender, sexuality, and class.
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