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About

Amalia Fonfara (Nanortalik, Greenland, 1985), works as a visual artist and shamanic practitioner based in Trondheim. She holds a MA in Fine Art(2015), from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has several years of practice in soul-healing work.

Fonfara works interdisciplinary within practices of embodied knowledge, animist traditions, and the arts.

Based within ritual-performance and new media her artistic work embarks on an ontological investigation of the crossings of inner and outer landscapes through introspection of animism and contemplative healing practices, where the essences of soul and materiality are entangled in a holistic comprehension of life.

Focusing on magical thinking and ritual-making within the arts, her practice seeks to open up pathways where knowledge transmission in contemporary art questions postcolonial structures, thus unpacking epistemologies outside the influence of positivist and rationalist thinking.

She is concerned with how the ritual space can help us connect deeper with the Earth and open us up to embrace sacred kinship with the land and its visible and non-visible inhabitants.

Her work is often socially engaged in local environments focusing on body, memory, architecture, and landscape.

Everything is alive and all life is connected!