ABOUT
Joanna K-Mamede is a Brazilian-British artist and director working across moving image, installation, ceramics and print. Her practice moves between document and myth, tracing how colonial and patriarchal structures shape bodies, landscapes and histories; how those bodies resist, return and remake meaning from within inherited systems.
Drawing on Brazilian Modernism, indigenous video-activism, ethnobotany and feminist theory, she centres women and marginalised communities as agents rather than subjects. Each work begins by constructing a world, a chromatic field of colour and sensation that bodies, landscapes and histories then inhabit. Across media, she extends the same inquiry into material form, ceramics, prints and sculpture that function as physical extensions of her moving image practice.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at Tate, Aesthetica Film Festival, Festival Ecrã, Videobardo, Deptford X, Ruskin Gallery and Rich Mix. She holds an MRes in Art: Moving Image from Central Saint Martins and is a former Trustee at LUX Moving Image. She serves as a Trustee at Equalities Work, a charity advancing social justice through arts and education at The Foundry, Vauxhall. She is a member of the ICCG, overseeing the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection of Brazilian modern and contemporary art.