Grafite-Musgo (Moss-Graffiti)
land art documentation
2025, 120 x 90 cm
print on plexi’collage
It’s a site-specific intervention at Parque Lage, where moss becomes both medium and collaborator. Set within Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca Forest, the work invites nature’s slow growth into the composition, blurring the line between human gesture and organic emergence.
Carrapixação
Carrapichos (Burrs)
2025, 3 pieces 23 x 23 x 4 cm
fabric, mounted on wood
Amora merges carrapichos (hitchhiker seeds) with pixação (graffiti) to reflect on vegetal migration. These quiet agents cling to bodies and fabrics, traveling unnoticed across territories. Creating a metaphor for migration, resilience, and the quiet power of nature to infiltrate and reshape human spaces.
Joana Amora (*1999, Brasil) Born in Rio de Janeiro; works between France, Germany, and Brazil. Her practice bridges contemporary art and agroecology through living installations, participatory methods, and embodied relationships with the land. Using earth, seeds, plants, fungi, and human connections, she creates site-time-specific works exploring interdependence and collective imagination. Graduate of Rio’s Fine Art School and current master’s student in Alsace. Exhibited at Hélio Oiticica Art Center, Échangeur22, Forestival, Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, the Venice Biennale’s Revoada project, and Bienal do Sertão. Currently developing Planting Water, rooted in an urban agroforest in Rio.
Grafite-Musgo (Graffiti de musgo)
Documentación de land art 2025, 120 x 90 cm
Impresión sobre plexi-collage Grafite-Musgo es una intervención site-specific en el Parque Lage, donde el musgo se convierte tanto en medio como en colaborador. Situada en la Selva de Tijuca en Río de Janeiro, la obra invita al crecimiento lento de la naturaleza a formar parte de la composición, desdibujando la línea entre el gesto humano y el surgimiento orgánico.
Carrapixação Carrapichos (Abrojos)
2025, 3 piezas de 23 x 23 x 4 cm
Tela montada sobre madera
Amora fusiona los carrapichos (semillas polizones) con la pixação (grafiti urbano) para reflexionar sobre la migración vegetal. Estos agentes silenciosos se adhieren a cuerpos y tejidos, viajando inadvertidos a través de los territorios; crean así una metáfora de la migración, la resiliencia y el poder discreto de la naturaleza para infiltrarse y remodelar los espacios humanos.
Joana Amora (1999, Brasil) Artista e investigadora nacida en Río de Janeiro; trabaja entre Francia, Alemania y Brasil. Su práctica tiende puentes entre el arte contemporáneo y la agroecología a través de instalaciones vivas, métodos participativos y relaciones corporales con la tierra. Utilizando tierra, semillas, plantas, hongos y conexiones humanas, crea obras de carácter site-time-specific (específicas al lugar y al tiempo) que exploran la interdependencia y el imaginario colectivo. Graduada de la Escuela de Bellas Artes de Río y actual estudiante de maestría en Alsacia, ha expuesto en el Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Échangeur22, Forestival, Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, el proyecto Revoada de la Bienal de Venecia y la Bienal do Sertão. Actualmente desarrolla Planting Water (Plantando Agua), con base en un bosque urbano en Río.
About the exhibition
Unbound Realms in FABRIKculture
Unbound Realms is a transdisciplinary exhibition curated by Ileana Ramírez Romero at FABRIKculture in Hégenheim, France (Sept 27-Nov 2, 2025) conceived as a porous constellation rather than a fixed narrative, the exhibition brings together artists whose practices traverse borders—geographic, linguistic, and symbolic. The works inhabit a space of latency and transformation, where images, texts, and gestures resist closure and instead invite unfolding.
Through cinematic fragments, poetic inscriptions, and tactile interventions, Unbound Realms explores the thresholds between visibility and invisibility, memory and materiality, fiction and testimony. The exhibition foregrounds diasporic perspectives and the marvelous real, drawing from Latin American literary traditions, migratory imaginaries, and the politics of translation.
Rather than presenting a unified theme, Unbound Realms offers a terrain of encounter—where the viewer becomes witness to what is not yet fully formed, and where creation is understood as a relational, anticipatory act.
Unbound Realms was developed in close collaboration and the participation of the artists:
Axel Töpfer & Jo Preußler
Daniela Brugger
Javier Grajales
Joana Amora
Juan José Olavarría
Katherine Newton
Luisanna González Quattrini
Raily Yance
Raphael Reichert
Rubén Bañuelos
Suwon Lee
Parque Industrial
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