Jota Mombaça: compost (continuum)

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Kunsthalle Bern is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition with Jota Mombaça.

Jota Mombaça (*1991 in Natal, Brazil) lives and works in Lisbon and Amsterdam. Mombaça is a writer, performer, and multimedia artist with an artistic practice in performance, text, installation, sound, and film. Their works deal with queer theory, anti-colonial critique, diasporic subjectivities, and embodied knowledge, particularly from the perspective of racialized, trans and non-binary experiences. Mombaça's practice is strongly research-based and understands art as a form of world analysis and speculative intervention that exposes and interrupts the violent relations of colonialism, modernity, and humanism.

In texts, performances, and installations, Mombaça repeatedly addresses questions about the “end of the world” as a political and epistemic project in which grief, anger, and ungovernability, as well as the possibility of collective imagination beyond normative orders of time, body, and knowledge, find expression. The artistic work has been presented in the context of exhibitions, performances, and as publications all over the world. Mombaça regularly publishes essays, poems, and theoretical texts in magazines, catalogs, and online platforms, in which artistic practice, activism, and critical theory are intertwined.

The exhibition by Jota Mombaça is supported by: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Ursula Wirz-Stiftung, Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung, Guimarães Rosa Institute via the Brazilian Embassy in Bern.