Tangent Projects Studio Residency Autumn 2021
For our Autumn/Winter 2021 residency programme we were joined by Tau Luna Acosta, WooSun Choi, Sorcha McNamara and Giancarlo Montes Santangelo, they were at Tangent Projects Studios between mid-September to mid-December 2021.
Many thanks to the selection team - Evin Collis, Elin Lindecrantz and Lucia Retamar - for all their hard work.
Tau Luna Acosta is a visual artist, teacher and researcher. They graduated in art history and curatorship with focus on contemporary Latin American art (Universidad del Museo Social Argentino) and received MFA in sound art (Universidad de Chile).
Tau Luna is interested in narrating geographies and territories and in elucidating the interrelationships among landscape transformations, migratory fluxes and the updated colonial order.
Currently, Tau Luna is researching geomagnetism, magnetoception, certain minerals, and their relationship with the human body. This has evolved into a study on ways of communication between non-human migrant communities on the one hand and on the human body as an ecosystem and the relation between bodily metabolic fluxes, socio-metabolic chains and migratory fluxes from the global south.
WooSun Choi is an independent visual artist from Seoul, South Korea, who is now based in Nottingham, UK.
She specializes in oil painting but likes to experiment with installation and sculpture as well. WooSun experiments with the stereoscopic potential of each image. In other words, she engages in exploring the sculptural quality of paintings and how they interact with the immediate space around them.
WooSun’s practice revolves around the externalisation of personal emotions, in various fictional characters that she asserts are all a part of herself, radically taking the idea of self-portraiture beyond the self. She examines the social and political nature of these themes; scrutinizing the ordinary aspect of daily life and transforming, and transporting it into a new reality.
*Photos courtesy of Sorcha McNamara.
Sorcha McNamara is a visual artist based in the West of Ireland. Her practice crosses the disciplines of painting, sculpture and installation, and is grounded in meditations on space, materiality and painterly form.
Her interests lie in exploring the intrinsically sensual states of often found or salvaged material, as a way of forming a connection to something intangible within something physical.
Sorcha's works have been exhibited across Ireland, as well as in Tokyo and Lisbon. In 2019, she graduated in Fine Art - Painting from Limerick School of Art and Design, and is currently an associate member of Miscreating Sculpture, an emerging studio collective based in Limerick city.
Giancarlo Montes Santangelo was born and raised between Maryland and Washington D.C. He received a BFA in Photography from SUNY Purchase in 2018.
In March that same year, Giancarlo presented the keynote presentation alongside peers at the SPE Conference in Philadelphia on the “Perils and Possibilities of Being Diverse”.
In 2019, he was invited to exhibit his photographs alongside Paul Mpagi Sepuya as part of the Whitney Biennial. He published his first monograph “Improvising Sight Lines” with Monolith Editions - which includes images, collages and writing and is held in the libraries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art - in 2020.
Giancarlo currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His work includes photographs, collages, and writing that teases out the poetics of a queer body politic informed by colonial histories.
To coincide with Luna, Woosun, Sorcha & Giancarlos’ exhibition project, Expanded Fragments, we continued our collaboration with Trio Editorial to produce a zine publication - click here to see Luna, Woosun, Sorcha and Giancarlo's zine or visit Tangent Projects to pick up your free printed copy.