Around Ruins: Some Notes on Feminist and Decolonial Conversations in Aesthetics

Although using different strategies, Portuguese artists Mónica de Miranda and Filipa César make us think about reflect on the ruins of ‘empire’ but also ruins—and remains—of European colonialism its patriarchal backbone. Their work opens possibility discussing aesthetics from feminist decolonial perspectives, departing category ‘ruins’ considering many ways through which these their multiple inflections contribute to creation potential affective geographies memories.