ABOUT
Joanna Mamede is a Brazilian-British artist and filmmaker whose practice spans moving image, installation, and sculpture. Her works explore the intersections of language, symbolism, and material form, interrogating how systems of power and representation shape bodies, landscapes, and histories. Across her films and installations—from Willow Black’s meditation on colonial imprints and botanical life, to The Anthill’s documentation of indigenous resilience, and Maybe Nymph, where myth and modernity collide to question unequal power dynamics—women take central roles as Mamede investigates the spaces between visibility and erasure, text and image, presence and absence. Her practice engages with hybridity, social critique, and speculative storytelling, transforming inherited structures into unstable, poetic gestures that open dialogue with contemporary questions of gender, identity, justice, and belonging.
Her works have been exhibited internationally at the Tate, Aesthetica Film Festival, Festival Ecrã, Videobardo, Deptford X, Ruskin Gallery, and The Rich Mix. She holds an MRes Art: Moving Image from Central Saint Martins, and serves as a Trustee at Lux Moving Image and Equalities Work in the UK, as well as a member of ICCG, overseeing Gilberto Chateaubriand’s Brazilian modern and contemporary collection.