Jota Mombaça is an interdisciplinary artist whose work derives from poetry, critical theory and performance. The sonic and visual matter of words plays an important role in her practice, as do the resilience, capacity for memory and ephemerality of materials. Her work often relates to anti-colonial critique and gender disobedience. Through performance, visionary fiction and situational strategies of knowledge production, she intends to rehearse the end of the world as we know it, in addition to the figuration of what comes after we dislodge the Modern-Colonial subject from its podium.
Her visual and performative work has been included in institutional group exhibitions, such as the 60th Venice Biennale (2024); Black Ancient Futures, MAAT, Lisbon (2024); and In and Out of Place: Land after Information 1992–2024, Kunstverein Hamburg (2024). Her work is included in the Kadist Collection, Paris, as well as in the GfZK Collection, Leipzig.
Jota Mombaça participates in Sharjah Biennial 16 as part of Bilna'es' project curated by Adam HajYahia.