The Island
By Monica de Miranda
Curated by Renée Mussai and Mark Sealy

The Island contemplates the complex experiences of Afrodiasporic lives and Europe’s colonial past. Fusing fact and fiction, The Island explores a long trajectory of black presences in Portugal by bringing together intertwined narratives, African liberation movements, migratory experiences, and identity formations through a black feminist lens.

The exhibition features two new Autograph artist commissions seen for the first time: a 35-minute film work The Island, and an associated photographic series part of Autograph’s 2021 project ‘Amplify – Stranger in the Village: Afro European Matters’, supported by the Art Fund.