Daniel Santangelo (b. 2004) lives and works in London, UK. Santangelo will graduate from Central Saint Martins with his BFA in 2025. Born to Italian and Ethiopian-Eritrean parents, Daniel Santangelo's mixed media works explore his ancestry and identity through a mythological lens. His figures explore spaceless, timeless alternative universes - interacting with delicate marks, script, and objects in spiritual and evocative ways.

Santangelo looks to distill the Ethiopian-Eritrean experience into objects or behaviours which permeate the surface of his paintings, sitting somewhere between object, abstraction and figuration. The notion of relic resonates throughout these works. Shells and sculptural elements are incorporated within - their physicality grounding them in reality and creating an enjoyable tension given the spiritual, timeless metaphysical worlds they depict. In many ways these metaphysical environments are simply reflective of the black ancestral experience - referencing the cultural ties that bind continental Africans and those of the African Diaspora.

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