Euridice Zaituna Kala

Euridice Zaituna Kala is a Mozambican artist based in Paris. Her artistic work focuses on cul­tural and his­tor­ical meta­mor­phoses, its manip­u­la­tions and adap­ta­tions. The artist seeks to high­light the mul­ti­plicity of his­tor­ical periods and social rela­tions within the African con­ti­nent which is at the heart of her refec­tions. These nar­ra­tives take place in spaces of depar­tures, encoun­ters... in the form of instal­la­tions, per­for­mances, images and books.

Euridice Zaituna Kala was trained in pho­tog­raphy at the Market Photo Workshop (MPW-2012) in Johannesburg. She has par­tic­i­pated in sev­eral col­lec­tive exhi­bi­tions including the 1st edi­tion of the Stellenbosh Triennial (2020), the second edi­tion of the Lagos Biennial (2019), Hubert Fichte : Love and Ethnology at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2019-2020), the 14th Fellbach Triennial for Small Sculpture: 40,000 - A Museum of Curiosity (2019), The Power from Within, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec (2018), Mistake! Mistake! Said the Rooster... and stepped down from the Duck, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon (2017), Infecting the City, Cape Town (2017) and (Co)Habitar, Casa de America Latina, Lisbon (2017). Her many per­for­mances include Mackandal Turns into a Butterfy: a love potion, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec (2018) and Euridice Kala Shows and Doesn’t Tell, galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris (2018). She has been nom­i­nated for the SAM Art Projects Award (2018) and the François Schneider Foundation’s Contemporary Talent Award (2018).

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, estab­lished in 2017.

Euridice Zaituna Kala, Will see you in december... Tomorrow, Installation, mixed techniques, variable dimensions, Museo di arte, Maputo, Mozambique, 2014.
Image : Euridice Zaituna Kala. © Adagp, Paris, 2020