The Royal Academy of Arts, in partnership with Buildhollywood and Camden Market, have commissioned five artists connected to Brazilian culture to respond to the RA’s Brasil! “Brasil! The Birth of Modernism, a major exhibition. The artworks on display, including an outdoor gallery in Camden, plus multiple large billboards around London, highlight the enduring influence of the modernist movement on today’s artistic practice. The creative intervention also complements a new mural featuring the work of iconic Brazilian modernists Tarsila do Amaral and Djanira.

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In 2024, Juli Manara received an invitation to create a special and unique artwork for The Macallan's new boutique, set to open in 2025 at Heathrow Airport in London.  ​Designed in collaboration with Jamie Fobert, the acclaimed architect behind landmark projects including the National Portrait Gallery, the boutique brings to life The Macallan’s new experiential retail concept, “Nurtured by Nature”. The space is a study in refined materiality and thoughtful craftsmanship, delivering an immersive, multisensorial experience that expresses The Macallan’s deep ties to nature and ethics with the environment.  Click for more

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Permanent Display

Heathrow International Airport 

Terminal 5

www.themacallan.com
 

Manacá is Juli Manara’s first solo exhibition in London, which brought experimental photographs, sculptures and videos that explore nature and its transformations, including two new works by the Brazilian artist who has lived in England for almost fifteen years, recalling the modernist tradition of celebrating natural elements in the search for “genuinely Brazilian” art. Manara has a deep connection with the natural world, and her works reflect this by blending the real with the surreal. 

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 “Amazonia Dreamers” was included on the cover of a new research publication at the University of Oxford. 

Luso-Ecologies: Ecocritical Perspectives on Lusophone Arts and Literatures is a special issue of the journal Portuguese Studies, edited by Dorothée Boulanger and Andrzej Stuart-Thompson. It features ecocritical perspectives on the arts and literatures of the Portuguese-speaking world, with a particular focus on “more-than-human” complexities, resistance and the Amazonia forest in Brazil.

This publication is available worldwide.

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Modern Humanities Research Association

University of Oxford

2025

In collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts and Camden Market, BUILDHOLLYWOOD presents a street-side celebration of Brazilian modernism in the heart of Camden Town. The five selected artists turn their hand to reimagine the seminal Brazilian work featured in the Royal Academy of Arts, all in their own ways, returning to the legacy of Brazil’s diasporic cultural identity

It was with great honour that Juli Manara led a creative photography workshop at the Royal Academy of Arts in London as part of its educational programme, linked to the major exhibition Brasil!Brasil! The Birth of Modernism. Her talks and experimental practices included research on modernist influences, and also demonstrations with lighting and equipment.  It was the first photography short course at the The Royal Academy of Arts was founded on December 10, 1768.

Paperheads - The Package is the first short film animation by Juli Manara, created out of recycled cardboard and photographs. Exploring domestic violence and the power of a united community, the film was selected as one of the finalists to display at Piccadilly Circus in London for the BigSyn film festival, organised by the United Nations Department of Social Affairs.

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The first sculpture project, “O Botanista,” which the artist has worked on since 2024, in partnership with Pietra Digital in São Paulo.
MiniB, in a black hoodie coat, is the first figure created back in 2010, and seen in most of the black and white photoworks by the artist.

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"The character represents our existence as humans, and for this reason, this character became the main idea behind the design of this figurative sculpture, representing the start of a creative path in the last fifteen years.

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Native Land, created in 2025, is a work created after a visit to the Guarani community on the coast of the Atlantic Forest in São Paulo / Brazil. 
A photography transfer work on a found piece of raw marble, and displayed at the Embassy of Brazil in London in March 2025.
The stone represents a global fight against deforestation and is a symbol of respect for every local community facing invasion and exploitation of their lands.

It was a great honour to be invited to display 'Mind The Cloud' artwork at the Tate Modern screening gallery, as one of the selected artworks for the opening of Dora Maar’s exhibition in London.​

As one of the biggest influences in my early stages of creation, Dora Maar’s provocative photomontages became celebrated icons of surrealism during the 1930s.​

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Mind the Cloud, 2013 (screen display 2020)

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Dora Maar at Tate​

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A great honour to be invited for an evening with the Belmond designers to introduce my practices and to talk about the environmental photowork process, about the Brazilian nature, and the whole work process until a final piece. 

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Thanks to the ArtiQ agency for hosting the event.
 

After New York and São Paulo, the exhibition was also presented in Rio de Janeiro. “Ah, I love Brazilian women!”, curated by Luiza Testa, is an exhibition that reflects on the eroticization attributed to Brazilian women worldwide and criticises this harmful stereotype that incites violence and sexualization. Through contemporary art, photography, interventions and video performances, the selected works delve into the inequalities that women face in an attempt to transform collective pain into a reaffirmation of identity and common liberation”

Juli Manara was commissioned for a new work, which pushed her to focus on gender equality issues she had never worked on before. 
The unique work was specially created for the exhibition that returned to CCSP in São Paulo, Brazil.A composite printed on a large black canvas displays hundreds of images captured during women marching in different locations and featuring placards of real messages from all those people fighting for a more equal and fair world.

Curated by Luiza Testa

The exhibition Oh, I Love Brazilian Women! presents works by twelve artists who critique this image of eroticized beauty and its dangerous outcomes. Examining the colonial and biological origins of harmful stereotypes that disproportionately affect Black and Indigenous women, and how such tropes are reinforced through Brazil's national narrative of "racial democratisation," the works on view illustrate the psychological and physical toll of incessant objectification and dehumanisation.
 

Curated by Luiza Testa

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A little Homage to Photography is an essay and multimedia project on 12 wet collodion plates re-telling the history and transformation of the medium, inspired by the works of pioneer female and non-binary artists from the past until now /

Exhibited at the Goldsmiths PSH Building.

June 2022