Euridice Zaituna Kala
Euridice Zaituna Kala is a Paris based mozambican artist. Through her work, she is interested in cultural and historical metamorphosis and its manipulations and adaptations. The artist seeks to shine a light on the multiplicity of historical periods and social relations within Africa, keeping this continent as a central perspective, as it is essential to her reflections. These narratives take place in areas of departure and encounters… taking shape through installations, performances, images and books.
She was trained in Photography at the Johannesburg Market Photo Workshop (MPW-2012). She presented several performances, including Mackandal Turns into a Butterfly: a love potion, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec (2018) and Euridice Kala Shows and Doesn’t Tell, galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris (2018). She also took part in numerous group shows, namely: the 14th Fellbach Triennial for Small Sculpture: 40,000 – A Museum of Curiosity (2019), Le pouvoir du dedans, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec (2018), Mistake ! Mistake ! Said the Rooster… and stepped down from the Duck, Lumiar Cité, Lisbonne (2017), Infecting the City, Cape Town (2017) et (Co)Habitar, Casa da America Latina, Lisbonne (2017). She was nominated at the SAM Art Projects Prize (2018) and the Contemporary talent Prize of the Fondation François Schneider (2018). Her work is also included in the 2nd edition of the Lagos Biennal (2019), Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2019 -2020), and in the 1st edition of the Triennale of Stellenbosh (2020).
She is also the founder and co-organizer of e.a.s.t. (Ephemeral Archival Station), a laboratory and platform for long term artistic research projects, created in 2017.
- Euridice Zaituna Kala ©Teo Betin 2018
The artistic project : ARCHIVE FRAGILE
It’s been three years since I arrived in France. Three years during which I saw a lot of changes, both personal and societal. I witnessed the voting of the Brexit, the Trump election, I got married, gave birth to my son, spent time in the offices of the Val-de-Marne prefecture, watched Emmanuel Macron’s assumption of power and the losses of Bowie and Prince. I was here when Beyoncé’s Lemonade came out, when #Metoo and the Gilets Jaunes emerged… Three years of events shaping, in their contexts, a collective story that we share every minute from our virtual avatars. We have never been so close to the daily news that we share as to our extraordinary, yet ordinary individual events. ARCHIVE FRAGILE is equally an artistic project and a social experiment. It is a journey through time, proposing to put ourselves in the future to watch the past and relativize our worries about the present. With this project, I want to conceive a interactive digital platform that will lean on social networks (notably Instagram) in order to reflect to porosity and the weakness of our virtual collective memory. Taking the Marc Vaux archives as a starting point, this collection of images that draws the outlines of the XXth Century Montparnasse, I want to reflect upon its apparition contexts, mix it with my own archives, explore its operation. I will also explore the images traces and shortages, looking at history with a both fictional and real deciphering process, mixing the languages of archeology and visual anthropology.
- Euridice Zaituna Kala, (Tedet) Telling time - from COMPOUND to CITY (2014), Performance, Johannesburg © Akona Kenqu, Public Acts, © ADAGP, Paris, 2019
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