José María Mancía

José María Mancía is a contemporary lens-based artist working in Toronto, Canada. His practice is primarily focused on investigating the underlying structures that comprise photography and exploring the nature of photographs both before and behind the camera. A second-generation immigrant, Jose’s practice strives to implement decolonial and queering ideologies in his practice with respect to notions of subjectivity and objectivity as they relate to the act of image capture. Jose has become transfixed on the idea that the discipline of photography is predicated by the act of looking. As such, his praxis centres on probing the parallels between the act of looking as it leads to the act of capturing an image. Jose treats the acts of looking and photography as a frontier to be explored by artists as the means to discern what constitutes the intrinsic relationship between humans and image creation.