Jo Moya
Jo Moya is a queer multidisciplinary visual artist who lives year-round in Douglastown in the Gaspé Peninsula. A versatile photographer, they develop documentary and community projects, with the aim of making art as accessible as possible to everyone, while addressing complex or taboo subjects through images, such as body and sexual diversity, intergenerational relationships, sense of belonging, collective memory, and social justice.
Their creative work, driven by inclusive and intersectional values, draws inspiration from the environments in which they have traveled and evolved, such as the Gaspé region where they currently live.
Since arriving in the Gaspé Peninsula, they have been exploring the connections between bodies and the land, particularly through their ecotransfeminist nude photographs. Through photography, Jo creates a space where you can understand, discover, and accept yourself within society, while also challenging and resisting it.
Beyond their visual arts practice, they have been developing a small flower farm at home for the past four years. They cultivate all kinds of flowers locally in an eco-responsible way. Gardening is an essential way for them to reconnect intimately with the earth, with our world, by taking deep care of it.