Umeå University, Sweden.

Ground Control explores connections between plants, politics and history. It brings together works by contemporary artists who are interested in the political dimensions of botany: plants as a commodity, the circulation of plants around the world, and their classification. Contributing artists: Maria Thereza Alves, Gerd Aurell, Hanan Benammar, Céline Condorelli, Suzanne Husky, and Mónica de Miranda.This exhibition is produced and curated by Bildmuseet in collaboration with Marseille-based curator Clelia Coussonnet.

Representing a cultural mapping process, this is an exhibition that allows to understand an artistic scene based on a system of connections between artists, subjective interactions from the emotional field and established friendships, as well as connections resulting from the referential field of work.

The Transperiphery Movement seeks to counter the center-dominated, hierarchical view of history by re-telling the histories of resistance strategies and emancipative possibilities of interperipherality. Visitors may embark on this transperipheral travel at the exhibition, which seeks to explore the shared, transnational history of Eastern
Europe and the Global South.

Participating artists :
Clemente Padín; György Galántai; Katrin Winkler ; Manthia Diawara; Mónica de Miranda;
Naeem Mohaiemen; Judit Flóra Schuller

Collective Exposition in collaboration with and curated by Tobi Maier com Cecilia Vicuña, José de Almada Negreiros, Mónica de Miranda, Namsa Leuba, Nenad Bogdanović, Paula Rego, Sonia Delaunay among others. The exhibition Entretecido | Interlace presents and analyses the material properties of textiles in an attempt to create a leap beyond the immateria of l life online, whilst demonstrating some of the connections that exist between the realms of the digital and reality. Entretecido | Interlace attempts to address the ramiêcations of textile production of fashion, and architecture, as codiêcation or expression of identity politics or regional folklore.

SABRINA AMRANI GALLERY

SOUTH CIRCULAR- ONLINE EXHIBITION

Now that we know what it is like to live in confinement, now that we know about the silence that remains in the world when we do not inhabit it, the images of Mónica de Miranda make more sense than ever. Ruined, abandoned places where the hand of man stopped intervening years ago. Isolated people walking on worlds that do not belong to them, that never belonged to them. People in silence, only accompanied by the sound of the media. Does that sound familiar to us?

FotoFest has revealed the artists participating in its upcoming biennial, “African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the  Other,” taking place in Houston from March 8 to April 19, 2020. Curated by Mark Sealy, director of the London-based  photographic art institution Autograph ABP, the festival will  examine the complex relationships between contemporary life in Africa, the African diaspora, and the global histories of  colonialism, photography, and rights and representation, and will highlight artists who confront and challenge images of the  Western canon.

The current exhibition of the artist and researcher is part of the Post-Archive project, which involves the creation of a digital archive with documents, videos, audio and photography, gathered within the scope of her extensive research on the relationships established between migrations, associated with the decolonization and the African independence movements in the creation of the and Europe’s urban landscapes. At the same time, tales of Lisbon  marks the donation of the artist’s work archive, consisting of 239 raw images that depict informal neighborhoods on the former Military Road, to the Municipal Archive of Lisbon. Mónica de Miranda’s archive gathers images captured over more than a decade of research in the neighborhoods of Talude, Azinhaga dos Besouros, Fim do Mundo , Mira Loures, 6 de Maio and other neighborhoods located on the outskirts of the city.

The exhibition Tales of Lisbon arises from this visual archive created over a decade, but it  is much more than the photographic collection of these neighborhoods,” it is a polymorphic object, a continuation of that initial archive composed of photographs ”, describes curator Bruno Leitão in the text accompanying the project. The curator continues:  “The artist immerses herself in an inquisitive and humanizing process in these places and,
by fictionalizing these spaces, creates an exercise in empathy.
A possibility of emotionally recognizing a Lisbon outside the center, but that asserts itself inside ”. At the Lisbon Photographic Archive, Mónica de Miranda  presents a set of photography and video works, mostly new works such as Tales of Lisbon (2020), Timeline (2020) and Twin Towers (2020),  as well as the video Estrada Militar ( 2009), created in the initial phase of his research.

Curated by Bruno Leitão and Soêa Castro