ABOUT
Joanna Mamede is a Brazilian-British artist and filmmaker whose work spans moving image, installation, and sculpture. Her practice explores the intersections of language, symbolism, and material form, examining how systems of power and representation shape bodies, landscapes, and histories. Across her films and installations—including Willow Black, The Anthill, Maybe Nymph, and Turner—she brings women to the center of narratives that move between visibility and erasure, myth and modernity, and text and image. Her work engages with hybridity, social critique, and speculative storytelling, transforming inherited structures into poetic forms that question gender, identity, justice, and belonging.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues and festivals including 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. Mamede serves as a Trustee at LUX Moving Image and Equalities Work in the UK, and is a member of ICCG, overseeing the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection of Brazilian modern and contemporary art.