Joana Duarte

  • I Used to Draw my Mother as a Horse

    When I was a child, I used to draw my mother as a horse. I don’t know why. At the time, it wasn’t a metaphor or a decision, it was just how she appeared to me on paper. Returning to a childhood image of my mother as a horse, I explore endurance, survival, and memory.…

    I Used to Draw my Mother as a Horse
  • Domino Effect

    Images exist in relation to one another, and altering one shifts the rest. My work traces the chain reaction of memory, showing how meaning, damage, and stories travel sideways through fragile archives.

    Domino Effect