MONICA DE MIRANDA – PANORAMA
2017-07-03The exhibition takes its title from the Hotel Panorama in Luanda, but also refers to the ownership and power implied by the construction of views of landscapes. In de Miranda’s photographic work, we see visions of the past and present of Angola as witnessed through its architectural geography: hotels, swimming pools and cinemas, mid-century modernist buildings which once served as monuments to colonial leisure, have been abandoned, repurposed, and are being silently reclaimed by the lush natural landscape. These urban spaces bear witness to the country’s troubled history of colonization, decolonization, civil war, gentrification and globalization.
Opposite – Ticket Office, 2017
Exhibition runs through to July 13th, 2017
Tyburn Gallery
26 Barrett Street
London
W1U 1BG
