On the occasion of the public Portuguese première of Mónica de Miranda’s film, Path to the Stars (2022), the Modern Art Centre is organising a discussion between the artist, the researcher and cultural critic Ana Cristina Pereira (AKA Kitty Furtado) and the curator Gabriela Salgado. The book no longer with the memory but with its future will be launched after the event, with a signing session by Mónica de Miranda.

The film’s title alludes to the poem O Caminho das Estrelas [Path to the Stars] by Agostinho Neto, leader of the anti-colonial movement and first President of Angola following independence. It narrates the journey of an ex-combatant in the Angolan liberation struggle as he travels, from dawn to dusk, by boat along the river Kwanza, the birthplace of the Ndongo kingdom, a pre-colonial African tributary state of the kingdom of Kongo.

Source: gulbenkian