Darks Miranda’s work moves between video, performance, and sculpture, shaped by elements that draw from science fiction and mass culture. Informed by an intense visual research process, Miranda’s production evokes a universe that, in itself, embodies the deformations of a failed modernist project.
Her sculptures—commissioned for the 14th Mercosul Biennial and exhibited at Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana and Fundação Iberê—resemble a skin inhabited by a society deeply extractivist and technologically dependent. Flowers and eggs, nature and birth, are presented in synthetic and malleable, metallic and shimmering materials. It is as if, at their core, they process magma, radioactive waste, human remains, scientific experiments, and alien slime. The works on display, like the artist’s production as a whole, highlight paradoxes—such as the repulsion and desire for the end of the world, coexisting with the pleasure derived from an increasingly contaminated planet.
Taís Cardoso
Darks Miranda (Brazil, 1985) is an artist, filmmaker, and performer known for her work that explores themes such as gender, cultural identity, and Brazilian aesthetics from a critical perspective. She participated in exhibitions at venues such as Paço Imperial, Museu de Arte do Rio, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, and Tate Modern. In 2020, she had works commissioned by Instituto Moreira Salles and The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and, more recently, participated in the FAAP Artistic Residency. She lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
