The sun does not rise in the north will be screened at The Art Explora Festival in Venice, Italy as part of their Museum Boat program. Art Explora is an itinerant festival that travels the world’s seas and oceans with its museum boat, offering innovative artistic and cultural experiences.

Moving across the shores between Ceuta (Spain) and Tangier, Morocco, a man and woman discover the present borders and past archaeologies of these lands that were once one and now exist separately.

©️ Still from The sun does not rise in the north by Mónica de Miranda, 2023

“The sun does not rise in the north” (2023) series


The Sun Does Not Rise in the North examines the complex diversity of personal and collective histories interconnected between the migrant and the diasporic experience in Europe. It is a continuous relational praxis that de Miranda depicts and deconstructs through counter-narratives of belonging, as well as on the (re)elaboration of memory in post-colonial discourses.


Malta’s first art biennale will be a visual festa, inspired by a process of formulating new narratives for the region, and a provocative rethink of global mindsets, emanating from the European continent’s deep south. Narratives that confront the horrendous stink of death by drowning; narratives that can defeat discourse fuelling fundamentalism and nationalism – a choral ‘hymn to the universe’, celebrating peace and harmony, defying war(s) with olive branches in hand, gleaned from the evergreen olive groves of the Mediterranean, blending with the sparkling whiteness of the seas that surround them: a provocative artistic initiative inviting a rethink of global mindsets about art and society, emanating from the deep south of the European continent.
Curated by Elisa Carollo, Emma Mattei together with artistic director Sofia Baldi Pighi and set designer Nigel Baldacchino.



“THE SUN DOES NOT RISE IN THE NORTH” (2023)

The Sun Does Not Rise in the North examines the complex diversity of personal and collective histories interconnected between the migrant and the diasporic experience in Europe. It is a continuous relational praxis that de Miranda depicts and deconstructs through counter-narratives of belonging, as well as on the (re)elaboration of memory in post-colonial discourses.” Fragment of the exhibition text, The Sun Does Not Rise in the North at Sabrina Amrani gallery.


ARCOmadrid is Spain’s International Contemporary Art Fair which, since its creation, has been one of the main contemporary art market platforms. In 2024, it will hold its 43rd edition with the Caribbean at its core. The programme curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates and Sara Hermann Morera, ‘The shore, the tide, the current: an oceanic Caribbean’, will hinge on the art scenes of the lands connected by this sea.



“THE ISLAND” (2022)


‘The Island’ was part of the COLOMBOSCOPE festival in theme of ‘Way of the forest’, curated by Sarker Protick, Sheelasha Rajbhandari and Hit Man Gurung. With artistic director, Natasha Ginwala. COLOMBOSCOPE is a contemporary arts festival and creative platform for interdisciplinary dialogue.

COLOMBOSCOPE is a contemporary arts festival and creative platform for interdisciplinary dialogue that has grown steadily within the cultural landscape of Colombo, Sri Lanka since 2013.

Including an artist conversation of the festival on 19 January, 3 – 4 pm at SNAFU together with Fernando García-Dory, Mónica de Miranda, Shiraz Bayjoo, Subas Tamang and Müge Yılmaz moderated by art historian and curator Anna Arabindan-Kesson. This session foregrounded the ongoing arc of artistic thinking and research behind the projects in Way of the Forest. Our connection to botanical histories, agroforestry and gardening as spaces of learning, and anti-colonial legacies in relation to today’s ecopolitical challenges were discussed. Moderated by art historian and writer Anna Arabindan Kesson.



“THE SUN DOES NOT RISE ON THE NORTH” (2023) series


In 2024, Dulwich Picture Gallery will present Soulscapes, a major exhibition of landscape art that will expand and redefine the genre. Featuring more than 30 contemporary works, it will span painting, photography, film, tapestry and collage from leading artists including Hurvin Anderson, Phoebe Boswell, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Kimathi Donkor, Isaac Julien, Marcia Michael, Mónica de Miranda and Alberta Whittle, as well as some of the most important emerging voices working today.


Soulscapes will explore our connection with the world around us through the eyes of artists from the African Diaspora. It will consider the power of landscape art and reflect on themes of belonging, memory, joy and transformation.


“A Thousand Tales”

The project “A thousand tales”, developed by visual artist Mónica de Miranda in collaboration with curator Cindy Sissokho and sound artist Xexa records was part of the Lagos Biennale 2024, themed REFUGE. “A Thousand Tales” is a multimedia installation project , which uses visual and sonare interventions to open up a conversation about belonging and diaspora; through the notions of identity, memory in relation to space, displacements and history.

Themed REFUGE, Lagos Biennial 2024 addressed the concept of the nation-state and critically reflects on the site of the exhibition, Tafawa Balewa Square, the venue of Nigerian independence celebrations in 1960, and also a key venue of the Festival of Black Arts and Culture FESTAC ’77, notably hosting a concert of the great musician an activist Miriam Makeba. The important legacy of FESTAC is seen in its ambition to create a planetary-scale project that celebrates and promotes African cultures of the continent and its diasporas. Also important as a point of reference is the 6th Pan African Congress in 1974 in Dar es Salaam, the first of the series to take place on the African continent.

Artistic Directors: Kathryn Weir and Folakunle Oshun



PATH TO THE STARS (2022)

Path to the Stars revisits the legacy of anti-colonial resistance in Angola, inviting the audience on a journey through revolutionary history and the future. The title comes from a 1953 poem by Agostinho Neto, a freedom fighter and the former president of Angola. Over the course of a single day, from sunrise to sunset, viewers follow the path of a heroine as she navigates down Angola’s Kwanza River. She confronts various avatars of her past—and of Angola’s struggle for independence from Portugal—along the way.

Tricontinental Cinema explores Maldoror’s five-decade career as a filmmaker, tracing her involvement with Black liberation movements in France, Africa, and the Caribbean. Through an immersive, multisensory landscape of films, photographs, poetry, and letters, the exhibition invites you to experience the full scope of Maldoror’s practice.




Jardim Gulbenkian
Av. de Berna
45, 1050-078 Lisboa

Mónica de Miranda, Path to the Stars, film screening.

In a shipping container installed in the Gulbenkian Garden, a cycle of films from the CAM Collection will be presented, accompanying the exhibition Stories of a Collection.

This cycle of films is part of the exhibition Stories of a Collection, shown in the Main Gallery of the Foundation’s Headquarters Building, Museum and Garden, and marks four different moments of acquisitions of works in film support for the CAM collection, under the direction of Jorge Molder, Isabel Carlos, Penelope Curtis and Benjamin Weil. With works acquired between 2001 and 2022, the cycle proposes six videos by Ana Hatherly, Rui Calçada Bastos, António Olaio, Ana Léon, Irineu Destourelles and Mónica de Miranda.

The Library Project
4 Temple Bar Street
D02 YK53 – Dublin
Ireland

A diverse constituency of creative practitioners working in photography and lens-based media including Lola Flash, Zanele Muholi, Hélène Amouzou, Silvia Rosi, Heather Agyepong, Phoebe Boswell, Mónica de Miranda, Aida Silvestri, Bernice Mulenga andFrida Orupabo, the latter presented in collaboration with the McKinley collection, are brought together in a group show titled I See the Face of Things to Come by guest curator Renée Mussai. The thematic exhibition centres around a fluid interpretation of (self) portraiture—as repertoire, as chorus and soliloquy, as moving image, as vision, as breath, as vessel, as archive, as embodiment, as justice, as activism, as community—showcasing the interdisciplinary work of artists [from the African diaspora] whose evocative praxis amplifies notions of self and other through the prism of past, present and future tenses.

US Embassy Lisbon
Avenida das Forças Armadas
1600-081 Lisboa

Bringing History Forward: Creating an Inclusive Narrative

In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Art in Embassies of the United Stated Department of State, the United States Embassy in Portugal welcomes you to join iconic American and Portuguese contemporary artists for a series of panel discussions and public events in Lisbon centered on the role of the visual arts in furthering diplomacy. The 3-day program will also showcase a traveling exhibition entitled the “Democracy Collection: Advocacy Through Art,” which speaks to the promotion of democracy throughout the world.

Participants: Joana Cardoso (Moderator), Nick Cave, Monica de Miranda, Amy Sherald, Dr. Deborah Willis.