Euridice Kala

Euridice Zaituna Kala is a Mozambican artist-teacher, whose work focuses on cultural and historical metamorphoses, manipulations and adaptations. The artist reproduces the visual vocabulary of historical archives to reveal its subjectivities, but also those they have made invisible. She questions the appropriation of black [narratives] bodies through their representation within archives; but rather than capturing their history, it attempts to reaffirm their existence via a deconstruction of the ARCHIVE. Kala is interested in contemporary art based on artistic research, with an expression in plural forms, a practice that presents itself as interdisciplinary and protean (performances, installations, photographs, texts, videos, sculptures/landscapes and sound works)

She is a graduate in experimental photography from the Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg (South Africa) in 2012 and from the Asiko School in Maputo (Mozambique) in 2015. Kala was a finalist for the Paulo Cunha e Silva Prize (2023), she is a laureate of a research residency at the Villa Albertine in New York (2022/2023 season), the Villa Médicis residency in Rome (2023), and the Villa Vassilieff / ADAGP scholarship (2019/2020).

She has presented numerous performances including Sea(E)scapes: Listening Session at the Jeu de Paume (2022), Tœtra (based on the text Je suis l'archive) at the Pompidou Center (2021), Stranger, Danger: Wait, it's just a prayer Room, at the Center Pompidou (2019), Mackandal Turns into a Butterfly: a love portion, at La Galerie-Cac in Noisy-le-Sec (2018).

Kala is also a lecturer-artist at the Nantes School of Fine Arts. She is also the founder and co-organizer of e.a.s.t. (Ephemeral Archival Station), a laboratory and platform for artistic research projects, established in 2017.

Recent exhibitions include: En Quelques Gestes: As if Two Suns were Setting, at the galerie Anne Barrault, Paris, France (solo - 2024); As Feeling Births Idea, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK (group - 2024); Echos der Bruderlander, HKW, Berlin, Germany (group - 2024) Premio Paulo Cunha e Silva at the Municipal Gallery in Porto (group - 2023); Indigo Waves and Other Stories, Savvy Contemporary,Berlin, Germany (group - 2023); Memory is an Editing Station, 22nd Biennial Sesc Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil (group - 2023); Sea(E)scapes DNA: Don't (N)ever Ask, the Salon H gallery in Paris, France (solo - 2022); Fata Morgana, the Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (group - 2022); History’s Footnote, Marres, Maastricht, Netherlands (group - 2021); This Is Not Africa – Unlearn What You Have Learned, the ARoS museum, Aarhus, Denmark (group - 2021);Je suis l'archive, I the archive, Villa Vassilieff, Paris, France(solo - 2020); he Power of the Inside,La Galerie, Center d’Art Contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec, Noisy-le-Sec, Framce (group - 2018)

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