Mónica de Miranda

Mónica de Miranda (born Porto, 1976) is a Portuguese visual artist, photographer, filmmaker, and researcher of Angolan ancestry known for her artwork on socially inspired themes, including postcolonial issues of geography, history, and subjectivity related to Africa and its diaspora.

[28] Her works typically consist of video, photography and installation, which frequently register the artist's view on urban and peri-urban, Luso-African landscape and associated contemporary and colonial history.

Her art is represented in the collections of 21c Museum Hotels, Louisville, Kentucky, USA; Soho House, London, UK;  Colección Alma Colectiva, Guadalajara, Mexico; Nesr Foundation, Luanda, Angola, and PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal.

[46] Substantial critique of De Miranda's artwork can be found online, where she has been regarded as "an artist whose work crosses borders and outlines a landscape of plural identities, inspired by her own experience of an increasingly itinerant culture".

[44][47][48] Her images are "lyrical, performative, and contemplated quiet moments that offer a kind of ...very reflective and melancholic", as written by Marigold Warner, Associate Online Editor at the British Journal of Photography when reviewing De Miranda's artwork.

[12] De Miranda's oeuvre has been the subject of study of a number of academic works, examining aspects such as her sarcastic photography,[54] the deep sociopolitical meanings behind her films,[55] the aesthetics of fragmenting, moving and doubling in her photographic installations,[56] and her influence on contemporary Portuguese video art.