Mónica de Miranda
Once Upon a Time
Curator: Gabriela Salgado
Exhibition
Once Upon a Time
Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa
20th October 2012 to 26th January 2013
Once Upon a Time, an exhibition by artist Mónica de Miranda and curator Gabriela Salgado, will open at Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa on the 20th October at 4 pm.
Mónica de Miranda presents in Lisbon at Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa Once Upon a Time, the first exhibition of a cycle of other exhibitions related to the project with the same name. Once Upon a Time is a journey presented in several chapters through the territories of memory, representation and belonging.
Once upon a time is presented as an investigation process about the desire to stay, where memory is a promise of reunion with personal mis-encounters.
In this project Mónica seeks to know the outside world through an interior act, promoting a revisitation of the houses in which she lived and developing a fictional narrative around the misencounters of her life. She seeks to achieve what is close by going in its contrary direction. This is a sensitive search to the paths of home, and previously driven by a set of five artist residencies (Cape Verde, Angola, Brazil, the UK and Portugal), that also suggests a process of catharsis by the artist, namely the need for emancipation through the confrontation with her origins and documentation of issues relate to the absence, displacement, and loss associated with those.
Once upon a time gives us a moment to reflect on the intimate spaces of occupation of the artist. They are physical, emotional and symbolic places, that are located at the confluence of different ways of life of the artist but that compel us to experience narratives where it no longer becomes possible to distinguish between fictitious and biographical elements.
It is this constant duality that invites the viewer to take part in the narrative, making one to look through airports, train stations and other places of passage, the turning point is oneself own moment of mis-encounters. An emotional archaeology or a diary chart of possible impossible narratives. Once Upon a Time is a portrait of a world in post modernity, marked by convulsions of wandering, uncertainty and precariousness. It is an exhausting process but redemptive in the end of a road that marks the beginning of the next. Once Upon a Time is a map drawn through promises of permanence and reunions.
Mónica de Miranda seeks to show us her own map and the path to her own impossible house. The end of a path marks the beginning of the next and the memory bring us only the promise of a mis-encounter. After all it is a path where travel becomes momentarily as our own residence.
In Portugal, Once Upon a Time is supported in the scope of the program entitled “Re-viewing Empires and Their Fantasy Objects” developed by Africa.Cont/CML, and is comprised of a 3 exhibitions and 1 talk program.
The project was developed with the artistic collaboration of Tiago Mata Angelino in the video cinematography, Simão Costa, who signs the sound installation, and the drawings and projection screens were made in collaboration with Atelier Artéria.
The project will have a second moment with the exhibition An Ocean Between Us, that will open on the 15th November at Plataforma Revólver.
On the 16th November, Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa will receive the second session of the “Re-Viewing Empires and Their Fantasy Objects” organized by Africa.Cont/CML. The talk, entitled “Remains and Traces”, will gather artist Keith Piper, curator Gabriela Salgado, José António Fernandes Dias and Manuela Ribeiro Sanches.
In January 2013, Erosion, the third exhbition, will open at Appleton Square.
ONCE UPON A TIME PROGRAM
Exhibition
Once Upon a Time at Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa
20/10/2012 – 26/01/2013
Exhibition
An Ocean In Between Us at Plataforma Revólver
Transboavista | VPF | Art Edifício
15/11/2012 – 31/12/2012
Exhibition
Erosion at Appleton Square
10/01/2013 – 09/02/2013
Talk
Remains and Traces | Re-Viewing Empires and their fantasy objects
With: Keith Piper and Gabriela Salgado. Chair: José António Fernandes Dias and Manuela Ribeiro Sanches
Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa
16/11/2012, 18 pm
Free entrance to the exhibitions and the talk.
INFORMATION
Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa
Rua de O Século, 79, 1200-433 Lisboa
Wednsday to saturday, 1pm – 7 pm
info@carpediemartepesquisa.com | carpediemartepesquisa.com/blog
(+351) 211 924 175
Once Upon a Time
www.o-u-t.org | www.monicademiranda.org
Organization:
Africa.Cont /CML | Centro de Estudos Comparatistas | XEREM
Support:
Carpe Diem | Transboavista | Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
BIOGRAPHIES
Mónica de Miranda is an artist, producer and researcher and lives and works between Lisbon and London. Currently is developing a PhD at Middlesex University in London, with support from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Mónica is one of the founders of the project of artist residencies Triangle Network in Portugal. She exhibits internationally and regularly since 2004. Selected exhibitions she has participated include: L’art de sport, Musée Calais (Calais, 2011), An then Again, Museu da Cidade (Lisbon, 2011), This Location, Mojo Gallery (Dubai, 2010), Underconstruction, Pavilhão 28 (Lisbon , 2009), Verbal Eyes, Tate Triennial of Britain (London, 2009), London Caravan, Iniva (London, 2008), New Geographies, 198 Gallery | Image IC | Platform Revolver (London, Amsterdam, London, 2007/08), Do you hear me, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, 2007), United Nations, Singapore Fringe Festival (Singapore, 2007), Tuning, File (Rio de Janeiro, 2007). Her work is represented in many collections, national and international.
Gabriela Salgado was born in Argentina and is based in London. She is an independent curator, lecturer and exhibition programmer. Since 1990 she has worked as an independent curator with many institutions in Europe and Latin America. From 2006 to 2011 she was curator of the public programme at Tate Modern where she devised programmes with international artists, theorists and diverse audiences. She curated a project with artist Cildo Meireles (Brazil). In 2009 she co-curated the 2nd Biennale of Thessaloniki in Greece ‘PRAXIS: Art in Times of Uncertainty’. She works independently as a curator and consultant in Europe and Latin America and continues to contribute essays to art publications and to participate in international conferences and symposia.
She is currently developing a programme of artistic exchanges between African and Latin American countries.
