Amalia Fonfara (b.1985 Nanortalik, GL) is a visual artist and a shamanic practitioner based in Trondheim.
My artistic practice is closely intertwined with my practice and studies in animism and old magic traditions of the North and Arctic.
Focusing on magical thinking and ritual-making within the arts, my 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.
I am concerned with how the ritual space can help us connect deeper with the Earth and open us up to embrace a relationship with the land and the more-than-human bodies here. I think of my work with animism and healing practices within the arts as gentle activism. A practice where spaces are created for reclaiming a living and more whole relation to the land we live on and with. My work is often socially engaged with local environments and I work in many different medias such as installations, film, video, sound, music, sculpture and performance.