Globo Lodgers

Globo Lodgers

In the essay Globo Lodgers: (Un)Mapping the Memory of the Vertical City with the Horizontality of the Body, Ana Balona de Oliveira examines “the aesthetic, ethical and political relevance of the performative and portraiture-based quality of Mónica de Miranda’s video and photographic work” in Hotel Globo (2014–2015), as the bodily stage of “passengers between the several times and historical moments of Luanda”, reflecting “on architecture, the history and memory of architectural modernism, the way in which it crossed oceans to impose itself colonially on African territories, and how it was re-appropriated, reinvented and subverted by the specificity of these contexts both in the colonial and post-independence period.”