Hello, I’m Monica! I was born in Brazil but have not lived there since 2015. Since leaving Brazil, I have lived and worked in many countries. I am a very sensitive, spiritual person who loves to think in images. It is important to me to understand feelings — my own and those of others. I work as an artist, curator, and art producer and also have a website where I share my works with the world (https://www.monicahirano.com/). It is important to me that the works I curate carry political messages. At the same time, as an artist, the personal component of the artwork plays a decisive role for me.
Lingua Franca tells the story of a marriage of convenience—a strategy used to obtain legal residency in the United States or Europe. Faced with rigid immigration laws, many migrants struggle to secure their livelihoods and escape postcolonial power structures. At the same time, a market for sham marriages is thriving, leaving individuals vulnerable to abuse […]
