Depth of Field Exhibition – Mónica de Miranda

The School of Arts is organisig the inauguration of the Profundidade de Campo exhibition by artist Mónica de Miranda, which will take place on March 28, at 6:30 PM, in the Exhibition Hall of the EA.

The exhibition, which will be on display at the School of Arts' Exhibition Hall from March 28 to June 13, aims to showcase the work of Angolan anthropologist Augusto Zita, one of the first African anthropologists to shift the focus of anthropological research toward the colonizer. Based on Zita’s unpublished field notebook, the artist created a film in which she gives voice to the anthropologist’s research and investigations in the Namibe desert, where he conceived a cosmological system oriented toward nature, with light as a third dimension.

Profundidade de Campo brings together concrete historical documents with systematic aesthetic explorations that aim to shed light on hidden memories, ideas, and conceptions of reality. The exhibition portrays the fall of the Portuguese Empire and the colonial ruins of that empire, which are now being swallowed by nature in an act of natural regeneration.