Joana Amora (b. 1999, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a multimedia artist working between Europe and Brazil.

Her practice is rooted in the belief that life itself is a garden to be cultivated, a dynamic ecosystem where relationships, emotions, and social structures grow, transform, and regenerate. Since 2017, she has developed a body of work that intertwines agroecology, sculpture, and poetic experimentation to explore the connections between human and natural systems.

Working through installations, living sculptures, participatory works, and land-based practices, Amora engages directly with living processes such as plant growth, soil regeneration, and ecological cycles. Her methodology emerges from walking, collecting, planting, and collaborating with natural forces, treating ecosystems as both material and co-author.

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Her projects often unfold over time and in relation to specific contexts, as seen in works such as Trepantes (Climbers) and Planting Water, an ongoing ecosystemic artwork combining agroforestry, audiovisual documentation, digital communication and community-based practices in Rio de Janeiro.

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Her work has been presented in Europe and Brazil, including the documentary project The Secret Pavilion, developed in the context of the Venice Biennale 2024, and her participation in the European research program MATCH – Mediterranean as the Climate Hotspot (2025–2027), which brings together artists, researchers, and communities around climate-related practices.

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Amora graduated summa cum laude in Visual Arts from the Fine Arts School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and completed an academic exchange at Aix-Marseille Université. She has also a Master’s degree in Information and Communication at the Université de Haute-Alsace. Her work is part of collections such as the Interdisciplinary Centre of Fluid Dynamics of UFRJ and the Technological Park of UFRJ.

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