
Júlia Martins Miranda
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO & MUSIC
b. Brazil
Lives and works in Noto, Sicily
Júlia Martins Miranda is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is deeply rooted in themes of memory, cultural identity, and belonging. Through vibrant compositions inspired by Brazilian poetry, music, and storytelling, Miranda reflects on the warmth, color, and traditions of her homeland. Working across different mediums, she explores the intersection of personal and collective histories, creating paintings that serve as both homage and remembrance. Working from her studio in Sicily, Miranda reimagines Brazilian cultural traditions through the lens of distance, transforming her homeland into a site of longing, memory, and reinvention. In this space of removal, Brazil is not just recalled but reconstructed—its warmth, rhythms, and iconographies filtered through time and place, reconfigured into a visual language that exists between nostalgia and new mythmaking.
In the Journal

Art 101 | Why Do Artists Continue to Make Abstract Art?
What is abstract art? Abstract art, at its core, is a visual language that moves beyond direct representation to explore form, color, gesture, and material in ways that evoke rather than depict. It...
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Art 101 | Femme Surrealism: Reclaiming the Dreamworld
Surrealism has long been associated with dreamlike visions, subconscious desires, and strange, otherworldly imagery. But for many women artists, it was more than just a movement—it was a means of r...
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Art 101 | The Art of Everything: What is Mixed Media?
In an age where disciplines blend and artistic boundaries dissolve, the term mixed media has become something of a catchall—at once precise and elusive. It describes an approach rather than a style...
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