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Mónica de Miranda: The Island — opening reception with the artist

22 Jun 2022

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Wed, 22 Jun
18:00 – 20:00

Free admission

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Join us to celebrate the launch of Mónica de Miranda's new exhibition - contemplating the complex experiences of Afrodiasporic lives, relationships to the land and colonial pasts

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Due to anticipated travel disruption, this event will now take place on Wednesday 22 June

You are warmly invited to a special drinks reception with artist Mónica de Miranda and curators Renée Mussai and Mark Sealy. You will be the first to see two new Autograph commissions: a 37-minute film work The Island, and an associated series of photographs from our project Amplify – Stranger in the Village: Afro European Matters, supported by the Art Fund.

Find out more and book on Autograph's website

Angolan-Portuguese artist Mónica de Miranda's research-led practice is grounded in postcolonial politics in relation to Africa and its diaspora. Her most recent project 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 – drawing on African liberation movements, migratory experiences, and identity formations through a black feminist lens.

Using film and photography, de Miranda deploys the metaphor of the island as a utopian place of isolation, refuge, and escape: a space for collective imaginings that speak to new and old freedoms. Anchored in cultural affinities and ecofeminism, the artist considers soil as an organic repository of time and memory, where ancestral and ecological trauma linked to colonial excavations continue to unfold. The Island urges us to develop a more conscious relationship between our bodies, the past and the lands we inhabit – and all that they hold – towards regenerative possible futures.

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