Born 1991 in Natal, Brazil
Lives and works in Lisboa, Portugal
Jota Mombaça is a non-binary bicha, born and raised in the northeast of Brazil, who writes, performs, and investigates the relations between monstrosity and humanity, kuir studies, de-colonial turns, political intersectionality, anti-colonial justice, redistribution of violence, visionary fictions, the end of the world and tensions among ethics, aesthetics, art and politics in the knowledge productions of the global south-of-the-south. Since 2013, Mombaça’s work has been presented globally in Brazil, France, Australia, Spain and Portugal. Mombaça is writer in residency at Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham until June of this year.