Amalia Fonfara (Nanortalik, 1985), works as an animist artist and shamanic practitioner based in Trondheim. She holds a MA in Fine Art(2015), from Norwegian University of Science and Technology. 

Fonfara works interdisciplinary within practices of embodied knowledge, animist traditions, and the arts. Her work is often socially engaged in local environments focusing on body, memory, and land connectedness.

An important aspect of her work is how ritualistic practices and magical thinking within the art can create space for reclaiming sacred relations with the more than human beings and land. And further, how these practices can bring healing to our communities wounded by colonial structures and the agendas of modernity, where human culture is separated from nature.

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 ancestral healing practices, where the essences of soul and materiality are woven into a holistic comprehension of life.