MÓNICA DE MIRANDA

The show displays places between ruins a the forest, between the utopian visions of the modernist avant-garde and the post-fall images of Socialism and its ideologies. The past reappears, transformed into the present, in a transcendent process of rebirth that in its ethereal quality has the potential to travel again from today to tomorrow.

All that burns melts into air (instead of ‘All that is solid melts into air’) suggests precisely the layers of a new manifest, referring to a socialist utopia now impregnated with an ecological meaning and urgency for change. Starting from the metaphor that everything that burns (in an attempt to extinguish memories) melts, and does so as a transformative process, the exhibition refers to social and political changes during the rise of the movements of liberation in Africa, or African Socialism.

The show explores the experience of modernity, its utopias and its remains, as ruins and forgotten memories engraved within the decay of abandoned buildings. All that burns melts into air is simultaneously about destructive and productive forces, and their constant process of destruction and renewal.

Press release courtesy Sabrina Amrani.