Mónica de Miranda participates in the exhibition with her series Casa Portuguesa. Conceived and curated by historian Isabel Castro Henriques, the group show explores the mechanisms and legacies of Portuguese colonialism in Africa during the 19th and 20th centuries. It aims to dismantle the myths created by colonial ideology, decolonize Portuguese imaginaries, and provide an accessible, educational framework for rethinking the history and impact of Portugal’s colonial past.
©️ Casa Portuguesa (2016) by Mónica de Miranda
Somerset House Foundation – 1-54 Fair
Commissioned by the Somerset Foundation for the 1-54 Fair in London, Earthworks is a site-specific installation reflecting on the concept of Terrestrial Communities. A public space that invites audiences to reconsider the role of botanical spaces in shaping our environmental futures.
©️ Photo by Kevin Meredith
In September, The Monastery of Leça do Balio inaugurates the exhibition People in Motion. Curated by Roberto Cremascoli, the exhibition is a contemporary reflection on migration, belonging and empathy, exploring what moves us as people and communities. During the artistic itinerary, Mónica presents Greenhouse, a Creole garden that combines sculpture, stage, installation and meeting space.
©️Still from Transplanting by Mónica de Miranda (2024)
A celebration of the Art Institute of Chicago on cultural Pan-Africanism related to the exhibition Black Planet: The Art and Culture of PANAFRICA. Curated by Antawan I. Byrd and it’s open until 30 / 03 / 2025.
©️ Still from As if the World had no West film (2024)
As if the World had no West is taking part in Sharjah Biennial 16 an exhibition that explores our precarity in unfamiliar spaces while remaining attuned to them through our cultural ties. It bridges embodied pasts and imagined futures, weaving intergenerational stories and diverse inheritances. Curated by Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Natasha Ginwala and Zeynep Öz.
©️ Afterlife from As if the World had no West series (2024)
Running from 6 February to 15 June 2025, SB16 will activate venues in Sharjah City, Al Hamriyah, Al Dhaid, Kalba and other locations in the Emirate of Sharjah, and bring together a diverse and broad range of perspectives.
Curated by Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Natasha Ginwala and Zeynep Öz.
©️ Still from As If The World Had No West (2024) by Mónica de Miranda
The film Path to the Starstakes part in thegroup show Paysages Mouvants which explores the metamorphosis of contemporary images, conceived as a collective narrative that reimagines the representation of natural environments. Curated by Jeanne Mercier in collaboration
with screenwriter Loo Hui Phang.
©️ Installation view from Path to the Stars video installation (2022)
“The Last Place They Thought Of”
This exhibition project brings together the work of the following artists: Lungiswa Gqunta, Soñ Gweha, Gaelle Choisne, Godelive Kasangati, Lou Cocody-Valentino, Michele Magema, Monica de Miranda, Zohra Opoku, MIMI Green and Melissandre Varin.
Entitled The Last Place They Thought of, this exhibition featuring installation, video, photography and drawing, aims to reflect on the possibility of a black conceptualization of geography, in opposition to what intellectual and essayist Kathrin McKittrick calls traditional geography. Drawing on the thinking and creations of these artists, the project seeks to explore and think about notions of territory and space from a black and female perspective. Thus, each of these artists, in their work, draw lines of territory from their position as black women, offering stories rarely told, making the opacity of the margin the starting point for a reconsideration of the concept of geography, also through the idea that everything is in relation. Then, by thinking of the territory in terms of Relation, concepts such as the body, nature, landscape and fugitivity can be explored, and the very thing we call geography disturbed. Indeed, it would be transformed by the total integration of what black lives, and more specifically, the lives of black women, have to contribute to the reading and production of space and place.
©️ Still from As if the World Had No West (2024) by Mónica de Miranda
The pressing nature of the debate on climate change aligns with the role of art in historical and social dynamics. This year’s project for Paris Photo celebrates the capacity of artists to be agents of cultural metamorphosis, shaping perceptions, provoking resistance, and instigating reform.
In Tiago Casanova’s works, documentary elements intertwine with metaphorical narratives to delve into the historical, symbolic, and ecological dimensions of São Tomé and Príncipe. Jessica Backhaus creates scenarios of everyday life, employing distinct perspectives and materials to blend reality with abstraction.
Mónica de Miranda’s new series challenges conventional paradigms, emphasizing the interaction between bodies and ecosystems. Roland Fischer’s works fuse geometric shapes with architectural complexities, offering viewers visual encounters that transcend conventional photography. “We are Melting” by Marguerite Bornhauser addresses the urgency of climate change debate through abstract imagery. With Jessica Backhaus, Marguerite Bornhauser, Tiago Casanova, Roland Fischer, Mónica de Miranda.
©️ Still from Greenhouse (2004) by Mónica de Miranda